Matt is a partner in Weil Gotshal's Silicon Valley office, co-chair of its 500-member Litigation/Regulatory Department and on the Firm's Management Committee. He specializes in trying patent and trade secret cases all over the world involving a wide range of technologies, including semiconductor devices, manufacturing equipment and processes; DNA sequencing; medical devices and other biotechnologies; computer hardware and software; network communications and telephony; and the Internet. Matt is also an Editor-in-Chief of Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal and has published extensively on various aspects of intellectual property law and litigation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and was named 2005 "California Lawyer Attorney of the Year" in Intellectual Property by California Lawyer Magazine. In 2001, the London-based publication The Lawyer named Matt as one of the "top 10" attorneys in Silicon Valley (he was the only intellectual property specialist or litigator so recognized), and as one of the "top 100" attorneys in the world (he was one of only two U.S. attorneys so recognized).