Matt, Sean R.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mr. Matt is a partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, where he has worked since its founding in 1993. Mr. Matt's practice focuses on multi-state and nationwide class actions and encompasses consumer, insurance, securities and finance, products, antitrust, environmental, employment, and labor issues.

Mr. Matt leads the firm's innovation in organizing and prosecuting individual class cases across many states involving the same defendants and similar factual and legal issues, an approach that continues to be a key factor in the firm's success.

Mr. Matt is a key member of the firm's pharmaceutical litigation team that confronts unfair and deceptive pricing and marketing practices in the drug and dietary supplement industries. Mr. Matt's cases in this field include the Average Wholesale Price Litigation, the First Databank/McKesson Pricing Fraud Litigation and the Enzyte Litigation. He is also working on securities cases related to the recent meltdown in mortgage-related financial instruments, including the Schwab YieldPlus Fund Securities Litigation.

Mr. Matt's prior casework with the firm reflects his diverse experience in most of the firm's practice areas, involving appearances in state and federal courts across the country at both the trial and appellate levels.

Prior cases include the Washington State Ferry Litigation, which resulted in one of the most favorable settlements in class litigation in the history of the State of Washington; the firm's California Electricity Fraud cases, including participation in the firm's representation of the Snohomish Public Utility District against numerous power generators and marketers alleged to have caused skyrocketing energy prices through fraudulent market gaming techniques; the Microsoft Consumer Antitrust cases; and Tobacco Litigation. In the Tobacco Litigation, Mr. Matt assisted with client liaison responsibilities, working closely with assistant attorneys general in Oregon, Ohio, Arizona, Alaska, and New York, as well as assisting in briefing and arguing motions to dismiss.

Mr. Matt's publications include co-authoring the comment, 'Providing a Model Responsive to the Needs of Small Businesses at Formation: A Focus on Ex Ante Flexibility and Predictability' appearing in the Oregon Law Review.

Mr. Matt earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Indiana University in 1988, graduating with Highest Distinction. An associate editor of the University of Oregon School of Law's Law Review, he graduated with his law degree in 1992, after earning membership in the prestigious Order of the Coif.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Securities Law

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1992
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington, 1993
• U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, 1993

Education

• University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon, 1992
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: With Highest Distinction
  Law Review: University of Oregon School of Law's Law Review, Associate Editor
• Indiana University, 1988
  Bachelor of Science in Finance

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