Matt enjoys a challenge. His creativity and ability to work outside conventional norms allow him to solve difficult legal and business problems and to enjoy a diverse practice. Matt has provided strategic guidance on and closed corporate and real estate transactions and successfully advocated and obtained favorable decisions before administrative tribunals, arbitrators, judges, and juries across the country involving, for example, prison conditions, the procurement of Mi-17 helicopters, cross border insolvency, business deals gone bad, and intellectual property theft and infringement.
Overview
Matt enjoys a challenge. His creativity and ability to work outside conventional norms allow him to solve difficult legal and business problems and to enjoy a diverse practice. Matt has provided strategic guidance on and closed corporate and real estate transactions and successfully advocated and obtained favorable decisions before administrative tribunals, arbitrators, judges, and juries across the country involving, for example, prison conditions, the procurement of Mi-17 helicopters, cross border insolvency, business deals gone bad, and intellectual property theft and infringement.
Practice Areas
Distinctions
- Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2017-2022
- Mid-South Rising Stars, Business Litigation, 2011-2016
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Commercial Litigation, 2024-2025
- Litigation - Construction, 2024-2025
- Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2024-2025
- Litigation - Real Estate, 2024-2025
- Leadership Huntsville-Madison County, Leadership Class 25 and Connect Class 5
Bar Admissions
- Oklahoma, 2003
- Alabama, 2004
- Texas, 2010
- Tennessee, 2017
- U.S. District Courts
- Alabama: Northern, Middle
- Oklahoma: Eastern, Northern, Western
- Texas: Western
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 8th Circuit
- 10th Circuit
- 11th Circuit
- Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Education
- University of Tulsa College of Law, J.D., 2003
- Member and Senior Articles Editor, Energy Law Journal
- Member and Senior Editor, Year in Review: ABA Section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law
- Phi Delta Phi
- President’s Award, 2003
- Student Bar Association, Treasurer
- Texas Tech University, B.B.A., 1999
Associations
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Huntsville-Madison County Bar Association
- Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
- Young Lawyers Executive Board
- Defense Research Institute (DRI)
Civic Involvement
- Church on the Lake, Board Member
- The Land Trust of North Alabama, Inc., Former Director
- Kids to Love Foundation, Former Director