Industry Teams

• Health Care Innovation
• Manufacturing
  • Fabricated & Component Goods
  • Materials
• Mobility & Transportation
  • Logistics
• Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Practice Areas

• International Services
  • German Desk
  • Japan Desk
  • Middle East & North Africa Desk
• Labor & Employment
  • Employment Discrimination & Wrongful Termination
  • Immigration

Biography

Matt helps businesses solve people problems. As an employment counselor, Matt guides his clients through employment law compliance issues, including hiring and firing, employment policies, wage & hour compliance, and I-9 employment authorization compliance. He has spent considerable time counseling clients with respect to legal questions unique to transgender employees, and other cutting-edge legal issues, and has experience with personnel issues unique to the healthcare field. An experienced litigator, Matt has defended family businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies in state and federal courts against discrimination, wage & hour, breach of contract and a variety of other employment-related claims and appeals.

Matt also counsels clients on legal problems that arise when companies—and their people—cross international borders. Matt handles all aspects of employment-based immigration, including obtaining work visas and green cards for his clients’ foreign-born talent, and helping entrepreneurs and companies opening U.S. offices obtain work visas for owners or key management personnel. Matt also advises clients on international personnel issues, including structuring employment, secondment and contractor relationships, personnel agreements, and income and corporate taxation issues that arise from moving or hiring personnel across international lines.

Prior to joining the firm, Matt served as Production Manager at a large book and magazine publishing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. There he handled production, purchasing, logistics, and content translation, working closely with vendors and customers in the U.S.A., China, Singapore, Europe, and South Africa.

A Louisville native, Matt earned a B.A. in English from Xavier University with a Theater minor, and he was a founding member of an improvisational comedy troupe. He earned his law degree from the University of Cincinnati, where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review, a member of the editorial staff of the renowned Human Rights Quarterly, and earned several academic distinctions. He has published legal articles in the areas of civil procedure and government regulation. Matt has performed with the Cincinnati Young Professionals Choral Collective pop choir group, sits on the board of the Denny Buehler Memorial Foundation, which raises money for financially distressed families facing catastrophic medical bills, and serves on the Young Professionals Board for Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio, which is dedicated to providing legal services to nonprofits making a difference in our community.