Matt is the chair of the Firm’s Employment Law Group. He is experienced in the broad range of complex laws that affect the relationships between employers and employees, including wage and hour, noncompetition, employee leave, workplace privacy, employee classification, independent contractor, and anti-discrimination laws.
In his practice, Matt is focused on providing practical advice to employers on how they may achieve business goals through the effective management of their workforces. With that perspective, he helps established employers develop, and executed on, employment law compliance strategies that compliment business objectives. Matt also works with new businesses, including foreign businesses entering United States markets, to establish employment “best practices” that are consistent with growth and long-term success goals. He helps employers avoid employee disputes, and also helps employers navigate and defend against such disputes when they arise.
Matt works collaboratively with the Firm’s transactional lawyers to advise businesses and institutional investors on employment law compliance and due diligence matters related to capital investments, mergers, business closures, and other business transactions. In addition, he is an experienced litigator, and regularly represents employers before state and federal courts, state administrative boards, and arbitration tribunals.
Matt serves as a trusted advisor to private-sector businesses, educational institutions, start-up and emerging technology companies, and non-profit organizations. He is a frequent presenter and author on employment-related compliance and policy issues.
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, Lunch and Learn: Considerations for Managing a Business: from Corporate to Tax to Employment, Scroobious
Presenter, Pragmatic Advice for Addressing the Unique Challenges Raised by The Data Protection Landscape, New England Corporate Counsel Association, Inc.
MA Bar Association: Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness Update
MA Bar Association VIDEO: Tips to Securing Second Round Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Funds
Publications
Find all COVID-19 resources here.
Quoted: You Got Your Paycheck Protection Program Loan. Now What? Advice From Small-Business Lawyers, Forbes
Summer is Coming: Massachusetts Compliance Requirements with Respect to Summer Internship Programs
A Primer to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Law, Employment Law Alert
U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Significant Changes to FLSA Overtime Regulations, Employment Law Alert
Federal District Court Reinstates EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Requirements (For Now)
News & Events
News
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2022 VC Deals
A Snapshot of Venture Capital Transactions
March 24, 2023 -
Employment Law Alert: Employee Payroll Considerations in the Wake of the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
March 13, 2023 -
Employment Law Alert: The FTC’s New Proposed Rule on Non-Competes
What Employers Need to Know
January 10, 2023 -
Employment Law Alert: Employer’s Watch List for 2023
Updates to the MA Paid Family and Medical Leave Act
November 28, 2022 -
COVID-19 Resource Collection
Coronavirus Updates
July 21, 2022
Events
Education
- Cornell Law School, J.D.
- Brandeis University, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Practice Areas
- Claim Defense & Litigation
- Counseling & Preventive Practices
- Employment
- Executive & Professional Representation
- Noncompetition
- Privacy & Data Security
- Startups & Emerging Companies
- Venture Capital
Industries
Recognition
- Joshua A. Guberman Teaching Fellow, Brandeis University, 2017 to the present
- Rising Star, Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine, 2009-2015