Drawing on a broad range of experience in multiple practice areas, our practice focuses on:
1 - Injuries, wrongful death, worker's compensation, maritime, oilfield and energy-related, trucking and car accidents; and other insurance claims;
2 - wills, successions, as well as business counsel (formation, operating agreements, negotiations, litigation); and
3 - general legal assistance and select
criminal-defense matters. Matt currently serves as litigation and/or general business counsel for clients ranging from individuals to local businesses, professionals, and workers in need of legal solutions. A former felony prosecutor in New Orleans and a career-long civil litigator, Matt has extensive jury trial experience. Having represented such clients as Lloyd's of London, AIG and domestic insurers and insureds in catastrophic-loss litigation and surviving spouses/family in wrongful death litigation, Matt is also familiar with high-stakes litigation. Matt was raised in Lafayette, Louisiana and practices throughout Louisiana's state and federal courts. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal. He is Past-President of the Lafayette/Acadiana Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and a board member of the FBA's Civil Practice Section. A DeBlois-Sewanee scholar at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana, Matt earned high marks across the curriculum, graduating cm laude and with additional honors in trial advocacy. He was also a distinguished student-lawyer in Tulane's Civil Litigation Law Clinic; after a week-long trial before a United States Magistrate Judge, the judgment obtained for the survivors of an indigent prisoner from the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office was the Clinic's highest. After serving as a United States House of Representatives Page and being selected the Speaker's Page, Matt earned a bachelor's degree in modern European history from Sewanee, where he was a member of the Order of Gownsmen, the academic honor society, and the varsity baseball team. After college he worked as a sawmill manager in Keysville, Virginia and as a newspaper reporter and night-editor in the Town of Abbeville, Louisiana.
