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Matthew Schechter
Partner
mschechter@mcmanisfaulkner.com
Telephone 408. 279. 8700
Facsimile 408. 279. 3244
Fairmont Plaza - 10th Floor
50 West San Fernando Street
San Jose, California 95113
Matthew Schechter is an experienced trial lawyer who uses the experience gained from his time as a prosecutor to effectively advocate for his clients both in and out of the courtroom and at all stages of litigation. Schechter has a varied civil litigation practice with a particular emphasis in employment law.
Schechter also brings extensive appellate experience with the Appeals Bureau in the Queens County District Attorney's Office to the firm's appellate law practice. He handles appeals and writs involving a broad range of issues at both the state and federal level.
EDUCATION
- University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1996
- Bowdoin College, B.A. Government, Comparative Politics Emphasis, 1991
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
- New York, 1997
- California, 2000
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Schechter has extensive courtroom experience from his five years spent in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office, having tried ten cases to verdict. Schechter also has made many oral arguments before the Appellate Division- Second Department in New York.
- In 2003, Schechter helped try a federal employment discrimination case, which resulted in a favorable jury verdict on behalf of a university employee. In 2004 and 2005, he wrote appellate briefs in two different appeals before the California Court of Appeal, each of which resulted in the reversal of the trial court's grant of summary judgment.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- State Bar of California
- Santa Clara County Bar Association (Member, Board of Trustees, 2007- 2008; Member, Executive Committee, Labor and Employment Section; Delegate, Conference of Delegates, 2005- 2008)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
- Assistant District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney’s Office, 1996- 2001
- Editor-in-Chief, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, 1995-1996
- Extern, U.S. Magistrate Edward A. Infante, 1995
ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS
- "The Marketplace of Ideas and Restrictive Covenants," Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Business Torts Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 4, Summer 2006
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Alpha Delta Phi
- White Scholar, Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government
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