Matthew L Garretson, Managing Partner, President: Matt received his BA from Yale University and his law degree at Kentucky’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law.  Matt has authored numerous articles and is frequently invited to speak at Continuing Legal Education seminars about lawyers’ professional responsibilities in individual or mass tort settlements.¹  In 2005, Loyola University Journal of Public Interest Law published a treatise Matt wrote, entitled A Practical Approach to Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in Aggregate Settlements.  In addition, Matt is the author of a legal text book (Thomson West Publishing) entitled Negotiating and Settling Tort Cases that addresses complex settlement-related issues.

Matt is an adjunct professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he teaches a course on law practice management with an emphasis on how to avoid professional liability claims.   Matt’s “form-of-settlement” client counseling model (re: impact of settlement on government benefits, liens / subrogation, structured settlements and the taxation of damages) has received national recognition and is designed to protect clients as well as help lawyers avoid “failure to inform” professional liability claims.