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Matt concentrates his practice on complex products liability litigation, toxic tort and environmental litigation and commercial litigation. He also serves as part of a national coordinating counsel team for several companies that manages toxic tort litigation throughout the United States. He also serves on a team that conducts due diligence on behalf of clients seeking to buy target companies that are engaged in toxic tort/mass tort litigation.  In this role, they analyze and assess risk and advise clients concerning potential future claims, successor liability, insurance coverage, and similar issues.

Matt has pre-trial and trial experience before the Massachusetts Superior and District Courts, Connecticut Superior Courts, the United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.  Most recently, he was part of a team of attorneys that obtained a defense verdict for a major building materials manufacturer after a three week jury trial in an asbestos personal injury case in Massachusetts state court, only the second asbestos case in Massachusetts to be tried to verdict in the last ten years.

Prior to joining Cetrulo LLP,Matt worked as an associate at a Boston law firm specializing in products liability and insurance defense litigation.  There he advised and defended manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in products liability cases involving automobiles, heavy trucks and tractors, personal watercraft, boats, firearms, tobacco, children’s toys, hot water heaters, industrial machinery, and household cleaning and insect control products.  He was part of trial team for a major automobile manufacturer that won a defense verdict in Massachusetts state court in a catastrophic personal injury case arising from a crash resulting in paraplegia where the claims involved minivan roof and restraint design defect allegations.

During law school, Matt participated in Suffolk University Law School’s Prosecutors Program, appearing weekly in the Chelsea District Court as a Student Prosecutor for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, and served as a judicial intern for New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Meehan.  He has also worked as a legal assistant in the Government Contracts/Business Crimes group of a large law firm in Washington, D.C.

Matt lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife, Cheryl, and two sons.