Matthew Oster is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Matt has extensive experience defending and prosecuting complex civil actions in the California federal and state courts. Matt also has considerable experience assisting on appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeals.
Matt has successfully defended more than ten large class actions or putative class actions in California on behalf of a wide variety of clients, most of which placed dozens or hundreds of millions of dollars at issue. These matters concerned such allegations as misuse of private information, false and misleading product labels, employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, inadequate disclosures on Internet websites, technical statutory violations and unfair competition. Matt also has successfully represented clients in dozens of other high-value complex civil litigation matters, including defending multiple qui tam, Federal Trade Commission, professional liability, trade secret, copyright and unfair competition claims and defending and prosecuting various other business disputes. Matt’s clients come from such industries as healthcare, retail (both Internet and brick-and-mortar), travel, manufacturing and real estate. Matt has particular expertise in the healthcare field, advising and litigating on behalf of providers.
Matt also currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Legal Center, a Los Angeles based not-for-profit legal services agency that advocates, litigates and educates to advance the civil rights of persons with disabilities.
Matt is licensed to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts in the Central, Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of California.
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D., 1997
- University of California-Berkeley, B.A., 1994
