Matthew J. Peck

Intro

Matthew is a trial attorney in the litigation section and serves as co-chair of the firm’s employee benefits litigation practice group. His practice focuses on high-stakes disputes with an emphasis on the defense of class, representative, and multiparty actions.

Matthew’s employee benefits practice focuses on the representation of retirement plans, plan sponsors, and other fiduciaries in all manner of disputes involving pension, healthcare, and other post-employment benefits. While Matthew tries to avoid litigation when possible, he has successfully litigated many novel and precedential matters to judgment and has deep subject matter expertise regarding the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the County Employees’ Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL), the Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL), the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), and the constitutional and statutory provisions governing other “independent” city, county, and special district retirement plans.

Matthew’s general litigation practice focuses on complex business disputes in state and federal courts and in arbitrations involving contract, fiduciary, fraud, negligence, and other business torts. Matthew regularly defends businesses in lawsuits and arbitrations brought under the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) and Unfair Competition Law (UCL) and has defended employers in wrongful termination, disability discrimination, and wage and hour matters.

Matthew currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He maintains an active pro bono practice and served as a working group member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Fairness and Accountability in Law Enforcement, which investigated allegations of racial and other bias in the San Francisco Police Department.

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