Kamon, Ellen

Matt Kairis is a trial lawyer with extensive experience coordinating and trying complex, multijurisdiction, and class action litigation. Matt has won bench and jury verdicts in energy industry litigation, antitrust actions, securities actions, and consumer fraud litigation.  He routinely advises clients on crisis response, most recently assisting the University of Notre Dame following a fatal videography lift collapse during football practice, defending nationwide legal attacks on electronic voting systems for the industry's leading manufacturer, and leading all litigation efforts in the wake of the financial collapse and FBI raid on National Century Financial Enterprises.

On behalf of First American Title Insurance, Matt recently obtained the complete reversal of what would have been the largest punitive damages award in an economic injury case in Ohio history. He currently serves as lead trial counsel for First American defending a putative consumer fraud RESPA class action in Chicago that alleges kickbacks in connection with residential real estate mortgages. Matt also serves as lead counsel in various mortgage servicing class actions involving issues ranging from claimed credit disparagement to consumer fraud. He was a member of the lead trial team representing R.J. Reynolds in a $2 billion tobacco class action that resulted in a jury defense verdict and was named one of the "Top Defense Wins of the Year" by The National Law Journal.

Matt's jury trial experience began at a unique program at Harvard Law, serving as a Massachusetts assistant district attorney with a 100 percent conviction rate through numerous prosecutions in a northern Boston district.