mfrederick@reevesbrightwell.com
512.334.4511   |   512.334.4492 (fax)

Matt handles complex commercial cases at the trial and appellate levels.  Matt graduated with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review.  After graduation, he clerked for Judge Samuel B. Kent in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and for Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Before joining Reeves & Brightwell, he worked as a litigation associate with Vinson & Elkins LLP.  Matt has worked on cases involving contract disputes, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, trademark infringement, trade secrets, media and First Amendment law, ERISA, and complex issues of civil procedure and conflict of laws.

Representative Matters

• Assists in the representation of major computer manufacturer in several class actions alleging product defects and unfair pricing practices
• Assists in the representation of major semi-conductor manufacturer in breach of contract/breach of fiduciary duty litigation
• Assisted in the representation of a media company against claims of misrepresentation and negligence brought by a member of a social networking website
• Assisted in representation of a geophysical services company in trademark infringement case against foreign and domestic companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico
• Assisted in representation of an investment bank against claims of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, fraud, and breach of contract in a submission-of-ideas case
• Assisted in the representation of an electronics manufacturing company in the pursuit of commercial claims against a semiconductor manufacturer and in the successful opposition to a petition for writ of mandamus before the Texas Supreme Court
• Assisted in the representation of defendants in national ERISA class actions
• Assisted in representation of the plaintiff on a breach-of-contract claim against a fractional jet ownership company

Editor-in-Chief, Texas Law Review

Tulane University, B.A., cum laude, 1999

Admitted to practice:
Texas 2003; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael W. McConnell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004-2005

Law Clerk to the Honorable Samuel B. Kent, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston, Texas, 2003-2004

Publications
Advantages and Pitfalls in "Corporate Representative" Depositions, 26 CORP. COUNS. REV. 309 (2007) (with Robert C. Walters and David R. Woodcock, Jr.).

Note, Adrift in the Harbor: Ambiguous-Amphibious Controversies and Seamen's Access to State Workers' Compensation Benefits, 81 TEXAS L. REV. 1671 (2003)