Matt Pearson is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office focusing on antitrust, consumer protection, business litigation and childhood sexual abuse matters. Matt received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona in 2010, majoring in Business Management, and received his Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School in 2013.

Over the course of his career, Matt has represented clients in variety of different matters including toxic tort litigation, general business litigation, intellectual property, products liability, family law and high-stakes personal injury matters. Matt’s clients have included public and private companies, closely held corporations and thousands of individuals.

Matt was part of the litigation team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation which resulted in a plaintiff verdict for the injunctive relief portion of the case in 2018. The damages portion of the case had previously been settled for $208 million. The plaintiffs’ litigation team was honored with the “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice” award by the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) in 2019 for their success in the matter. The verdict was later appealed to the United States Supreme Court where plaintiffs successfully upheld district court’s verdict in a landmark 9-0 victory.

Matt is an active member in a number of legal organizations including the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Matt has also been selected as a Southern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2019 to the present.

Current Cases:

• In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust (N.D. Ill.)
• In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn.)
• In re Cattle Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn.)
• Jennifer Andrews, et al v. Google LLC, et al (N.D. Cal)
• In re KIND LLC “Healthy and All Natural” Litigation (S.D.N.Y.)
• North American Soccer League, LLC v. United States Soccer Federation, Inc., and Major League Soccer, L.L.C. (E.D.N.Y.)
• In re Northern California Clergy Cases
• In re Southern California Clergy Cases
• In re The San Diego Diocese Cases

Past Cases:

• In re: Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) – $31 million settlement
• Grace v. Apple, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – $18 million settlement
• In re National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) – $208 million settlement
• In re Credit Default Swaps Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) – $1.86 billion settlement
• Eashoo v. Iovate Health Sciences USA Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – $2.5 million settlement

Education:

• Whittier Law School, California – J.D. – 2013
• University of Arizona: Eller College of Management – B.S.– 2010

Bar Admissions:

• California
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• American Association for Justice
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Los Angeles County Bar Association