As Co-Chair of the firm’s Consumer Class Actions Practice, Matt Powers focuses his practice on products liability and class action defense, and he has extensive experience representing defendants in consumer class actions in California and around the country. Matt also handles complex, multiparty commercial litigation. He has been repeatedly recognized as a “Rising Star” in surveys conducted by the Northern California edition of Super Lawyers magazine.
Class Action and Mass Tort
- Defended multinational semiconductor company against multiple consumer class actions related to an alleged security vulnerability.
Commercial Litigation
- Defended nationwide homebuilder in eleven-month bench trial involving disputes over accounting for and profitability of real estate development projects in Southern California.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- US District Court, Central District of California
Education
- University of Texas, J.D.: Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, Texas Law Review
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Physics
Honors & Awards
- Ranked by Chambers USA for Product Liability: Consumer Class Actions (2021-2022) and for Litigation: General Commercial (2023-2024)
- Named a “Client Service All-Star” by The BTI Consulting Group (2022)
- Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (2017-2022, 2024), Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action: Consumer Products (including Tobacco) (2018-2022, 2024), Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action - Defense: Automotive/Transport (2021-2022, 2024), and Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Toxic Tort (2024)
Professional Activities
Clerkships
- Honorable Will Garwood, US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2000-2001)
Author
- “‘But For’ Causation in Defective Drug and Toxic Exposure Cases: California's Form Jury Instruction CACI 430,” Association of Corporate Counsel's Summer 2007 Newsletter
Contributing Editor
- California Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Before Trial, The Rutter Group
Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, “The Outside Counsel Perspective,” California Privacy Law 2023, Practising Law Institute (October 26, 2023)
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