Matt Menezes

Matt Menezes represents Fortune 500 and public sector clients in adverse proceedings and as regulatory counsel. His experience spans a broad range of matters, including mass torts, consumer product safety, copyright, data privacy and cybersecurity, labor and employment and environmental law, including work under the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, and Toxic Substances Control Act, as well as other federal and state regulatory regimes. His pro bono practice includes immigration, DEI-related matters and tenant rights.

Matt conducts legal research and drafts memoranda to inform business decision-making; manages discovery, including drafting and responding to discovery requests and subpoenas, leveraging e-discovery platforms and taking and defending depositions; prepares expert witness reports and testimony; and handles motions practice, including pre-trial and dispositive motions.

Experience

Represented a major telecommunications company in wildfire mass tort litigation; participated in over 200 hours of depositions, drafted motions in limine and Daubert motions, prepared expert witness reports and testimony, and used e-discovery tools to manage a universe of over one million documents.

Second-chaired a deposition that resulted in the voluntary dismissal of class claims in putative discrimination and pay equity class action for a public higher education institution and drafted a motion for summary judgment that was granted from the bench, resolving all claims in favor of the institution.

Examined country conditions expert before Immigration Court to argue for withholding from Removal under the Convention Against Torture and drafted country conditions section of a post-hearing brief ordered by the Court, which resulted in a grant of Deferral from Removal. Drafted Writ of Habeas Corpus in anticipation that noncitizen client may be detained while attending ICE check-ins required as a condition of his bond.

Authored Administrative Procedures Act (APA) briefing on behalf of a trade association intervening to challenge and support distinct components of major Clean Air Act rulemaking.

Drafted an amicus brief for a trade association defending Fish and Wildlife listing determination, highlighting the positive role of voluntary conservation actions in habitat restoration and species conservation.

Represented a technology company in receipt of successive third-party subpoenas related to its product’s use to identify copyright infringement; drafted objections and responses, met and conferred with opposing counsel, and defended CEO in deposition.