Matthew has appeared in federal and state courts regularly since joining the Bar, and in a variety of matters, including:

• Lead counsel in the largest minority shareholder oppression litigation in South Carolina, involving multiple entities organized in multiple states with more than $350 million in net asset value in multiple countries
• Lead counsel in multi-million dollar consumer protection litigation on behalf of all 16 state circuit solicitors representing all 46 South Carolina counties
• Lead counsel for the state agency charged with protecting the public interest in the biggest South Carolina utility rate case involving $5 billion
• Lead counsel for the primary target in the largest State Grand Jury public corruption investigation and prosecution in 25 years in South Carolina
• Lead counsel for SC Senate in successfully defending against constitutional challenges to $270 million in temporary rate relief for 780,000 ratepayers after construction of a new nuclear power plant was abandoned
• Lead counsel in obtaining an arbitration award in business litigation with a value in excess of $25 million involving one of South Carolina’s largest privately held companies
• Lead counsel for a class of all foster care children in South Carolina for systemic constitutional and statutory violations and for monitoring successful completion of the implementation plans
• Local counsel for collection of a judgment on behalf of terrorist victims against competing claims for funds that had been frozen in the District of South Carolina
• Lead counsel for a retrocessionaire in multiple claims for direct and successor liability in underlying tort cases
• Lead counsel in minority ownership claims against a professional services business with more than 270,000 customers in three states

• South Carolina Bar
• District of South Carolina
• Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
• District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States Supreme Court

• Presentation, “Candor Toward the Tribunal,” Richland County Bar Association Annual Free Ethics CLE, Columbia, SC, October 28, 2016
• Program Coordinator and Moderator, “Summit on Access to Justice for All,” USC Alumni Center, October 24, 2016
• Presentation, “Access to Justice for All,” S.C. State Judicial Conference, Columbia, SC, August 20, 2015
• Presentation, “More Light! Protecting Public Housing Participants through Utility Allowance Litigation” for S.C. Appleseed, Columbia, SC, November 21, 2014
• Presentation, “2014 Mid-Year Review: Civil Practice Update,” Columbia, SC, June 27, 2014 & July 11, 2014
• Presentation, “Plaintiffs’ Civil Trial Practice,” LAWS 557, USC School of Law, Columbia, SC, February 24, 2013, February 25, 2014, & February 23, 2015
• Presentation, “Truthiness: Justice at Stake,” Auto Torts Seminar for S.C. Association for Justice, Atlanta, GA, December 1, 2012
• Doing Business in South Carolina Guide, co-author of Section XVI: Ethics, Lobbying, and Campaign Financing
• Program Coordinator and Moderator, “Guns Rights and Laws” CLE, USC School of Law, September 9, 2010
• Presentation, “Discovery Issues and Techniques from the Plaintiff’s Perspective,” SC Bar CLE Seminar, Discovery: Problems & Solutions, Columbia, SC, May 14, 2010
• Panel Discussion with Federal Judges, “Candor Towards the Tribunal,” Federal Bar Association 2009 Ethics CLE and Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC, September 17, 2009
• Co-Author, “Insurance Bad Faith,” South Carolina Damages, S.C. Bar 2d ed. 2009
• Co-Moderator, “Should the South Carolina Constitution Support a Stronger Executive?,” Symposium: State Constitutional Reform in the New South, Charleston School of Law, January 16, 2009
• Moderator, “Exploring Bans on Illegal Immigrant Admission to State Colleges & Universities,” Symposium: State Constitutional Reform in the New South, Charleston School of Law, January 16, 2009
• Presentation, “Election Protection Strategies,” NAACP Faith Community Summit, October 23, 2008
• Presentation, “Statutory Changes to Joint and Several Liability,” SCTLA Convention, August 3, 2007
• Presentation, “No-Injury Class Actions are Coming to South Carolina,” S.C. State Circuit Judges Conference, May 17, 2007
• Presentation, “No-Injury Class Actions: Frontier or Futile?” RPWB Co-Counsel Seminar, April 27, 2007, and SCTLA Convention, August 3, 2007
• Presentation, “Is ‘Joint and Several” Becoming ‘Blame Everybody”?” SCTLA Convention, August 3, 2006
• Presentation, “Overview of the Federal Legal System,” FBA Summer Clerks Program, 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Presentation, “2005 Legislative Changes to Joint and Several Liability in South Carolina,” Judges Meeting, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, May 12, 2006
• Presentation, “What it Means to be a Trial Lawyer,” SCTLA Student Chapter, USC School of Law, October 27, 2005
• Moderator, Fourth Annual Federal Practice in the District of South Carolina, September 9, 2005
• Presentation, “All Aboard, The Train is Leaving: Electronic Case Filing is Mandatory in the District of South Carolina,” SCTLA Convention, August 5, 2005
• Author, “2005 Legislative Changes to the South Carolina Civil Justice System,” SCTLA Bulletin, Summer 2005
• Co-Author, “The Tort of Unauthorized Pelvic Exams,” Trial, October 2004
• Co-Author, “Secret Settlements: Reports of Their Demise Are Premature,” 15 S.C. Law. 29, May 2004
• Co-Author, “Insurance Bad Faith,” 2 South Carolina Damages 11, S.C. Bar 2004