Matt has been with Becker, Schroader & Chapman, P.C. since 2001. He has won jury trials in Illinois and Missouri and handles all types of injury claims including Industrial and Construction Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Deckhand and Maritime Injuries, Products and Premises Liability, and Vehicle Accidents. Matt also represents injured workers in worker’s compensation cases throughout Illinois. Matt is the lead trial attorney for the emergency response team for the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Union - a role that has taken him to courtrooms for catastrophic injury and fatality litigation in multiple jurisdictions, including Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota (twice), West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Matt served as an Edwardsville Township Trustee for eight years from 2017 to 2025. Before law school, Matt served six years as a munitions systems specialist in the Illinois Air National Guard, 183^rd Tactitical Fighter Group, based in Springfield, Illinois. Matt currently resides in Glen Carbon, Illinois with his wife, Kim. 

Notable Recent Results:

▪            $4 million settlement for laborer at grain elevator who was pulled into a radial stacker/conveyor.

▪            $3.67 million verdict for Dupo Police Officer who was shot on duty.

▪            $3 million settlement for widow of deckhand who was struck by winch cable.

▪            $3.1 million settlement for family of plant worker pinned by laser guided forklift.

▪            $1.2 million settlement for hospital security guard who was stabbed by patient.

▪            $1.2 million settlement for slip and fall, resulting in spinal surgery.

▪            $750,000 medical malpractice settlement in rural Illinois arising out of a post-operative bleed after gall bladder removal.

▪            $650,000 settlement against trucking company after prior offer to previous attorney was $200,000.       

▪            $625,000 settlement for boilermaker who fell during chimney re-lining project.

▪            $400,000 workers’ compensation settlement for steelworker who fractured ankle.

▪            $209,000 workers’ compensation arbitration award against State of Illinois for highway maintainer.

▪            Multiple Permanent Total Disability Awards and Section 7 Death Benefit Awards for workers and their families under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act.

▪            $20,000 settlement for wrongful euthanasia of a family’s cat by municipality. 

• Personal injury
• Workers' compensation

• 100% of practice devoted to litigation

• Missouri, 1999
• Illinois, 2000
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2000

• Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, MO
  J.D. summa cum laude - 1999
  Law Review: Saint Louis University Law Review
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
  B.A. summa cum laude
  Major: Political Science

• Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Associate, 1999 - 2001