• Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude;
  University of Illinois, Ph.D. E.E. course work;
  University of Illinois, M.S., Electrical Engineering;
  University of Illinois, B.S., Computer Engineering, highest honors.

• Former Shareholder (partner) and Chair of the Litigation Group at a large Boston intellectual property firm.

• Adjunct Professor Suffolk Univ. Law School (patent law) and, formerly, at Franklin Pierce Law Center (software patent prosecution); well published (legal and technical).

• Chair of BPLA Patent Litigation Committee; chaired the Boston Bar Association committee on intellectual property litigation.

Matt is a successful litigator and well-experienced in the patent application and counseling process.  He is practiced in computer architecture, algorithms and software, analog and digital circuits, semiconductor design, telecommunications, consumer products and medical devices.

Matt is one of the founders of LL&A, where he practices in the areas of patent litigation, counseling and the patent acquisition process.  In addition to his experience as a litigator and counselor, Matt draws on his experience as a law clerk in the United States District Court of Massachusetts (for the Honorable Robert E. Keeton), as a corporate attorney experienced in licensing as well as corporate transactions, and as someone with a deep technical background, having published and presented his research in books, journals and at international conferences.  Matt also draws on his experience as a Shareholder, and as the first Chairperson of the Litigation Practice Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks – a position he held for more than four years, until he left to form LL&A.

These experiences have helped Matt achieve many successes for his clients, when in an adversarial setting, by settlement, dispositive motion, trial and/or appeal to the Federal Circuit.  In many instances, however, the results he is most proud of are achieved through prudent counseling in advance of litigation. 

Matt’s patent practice is built around a strong technical background.  In addition to getting a black belt in Karate and going to every home football game for eight years, Matt’s college years saw him earn a B.S. in computer engineering (highest honors) from the University of Illinois.  He went on to spend four years there in graduate school, received a Masters degree in electrical engineering and completed the course work for a PhD in electrical engineering.  During that time he studied at the graduate level: electrical circuits, solid state design, computer circuits, computer architecture and software.  He also wrote (i) a book chapter and an invited journal paper on computer software and hardware architecture for artificial intelligence, (ii) a peer-reviewed paper on Supercomputers for Artificial Intelligence, (iii) a peer-reviewed paper on Machine Learning, and (iv) a peer-reviewed journal article, and paper presented at an international conference, on fault tolerant computer architecture. 

Matt’s appetite for the academic continues.  While practicing full-time as an attorney, Matt spent two years teaching software patent prosecution at the Franklin Pierce Law Center.  Currently, Matt is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches patent law.  Matt frequently speaks on patent law and issues, for example, at the National Contract Management Association (local chapter and national conference), the Massachusetts Software Council, a Boston Patent Law Association seminar on inventorship controversies, the Suffolk Annual Conference on High Technology Dispute  Resolution, a Franklin Pierce Law Center/Licensing Executive Society seminar, a national FindLaw seminar, at Suffolk University Law School and Harvard Law School (where he has also served as a moot court judge), Boston University (SAGE), an ACCA/ABA seminar on patent litigation, has been an invited author and speaker at national conferences and international conferences (e.g., at SPIE and SSGRR) and was the keynote speaker for the ring ceremony of the Order of the Engineer (an ethics society) at Boston University.  For the last, Matt was also admitted and still wears his ring. 

Matt has published a variety of articles and been frequently quoted in, for example, The Boston Business Journal, Mass. High Tech. Weekly, Bureau of National Affairs, Pharmaceutical Policy & Report, and Credit Card Management Magazine.  Matt also chairs the Patent Litigation Committee of the Boston Patent Law Association, chaired its Patent Law Committee and chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Litigation Committee.  He also has been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts' "Super Lawyers" in the practice of both intellectual property and intellectual property litigation.

Matt’s past includes a variety of other pursuits; he is an Eagle Scout, former certified ski instructor and made his way through college hanging aluminum siding and gutters.  Now, he is a devoted husband and father and seeks to contribute to his community, serving as a Director of the Belmont Foundation for Education, and an Overseer of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; he is also pleased to serve as an elected member of Town Meeting in Belmont, and pleased all the more because he sits with his wife, and she cannot out-vote him.