Matt Berry represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts across the United States. Berry handles a wide variety of complex commercial litigation including patent infringement, antitrust, pharmaceutical disputes, legal malpractice, and large business disputes.
A member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2020, Lawdragon has included Berry on their list of the 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers every year since 2020.
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Berry is often at the center of precedent-setting, major litigation results.
In what was called the “Tech Trial of the Century” Berry and a team from Susman Godfrey were hired by Uber Technologies, Inc. just months before trial when Alphabet’s Waymo was claiming more than $1.86 billion in damages against Uber over allegations of stolen trade secrets in California federal court. Berry deposed Waymo’s damages expert and then filed the motion to exclude the expert and his $1.86 billion damages model, which was granted in full, leaving Waymo with no damages expert for trial.
Working at the helm of a major legal malpractice action, Berry joined a team of Susman Godfrey lawyers from its New York office to secure a confidential settlement with Proskauer Rose on behalf of California venture capitalist, Robert Adelman, who blamed Proskauer for a drafting error that he said cost him his $636 million stake in a hedge fund he co-founded.
Berry serves on the co-lead counsel team in an antitrust class action against the country’s largest real estate services companies and the National Association of Realtors. The class has reached proposed settlements of over $900 million with the National Association of Realtors and numerous brokerage defendants to resolve allegations that NAR and several of the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage companies implemented anticompetitive rules requiring real estate agents for home sellers to offer to pay buyer broker fees in addition to their own brokers’ commissions.
Berry previously won a $50.3 million jury verdict on behalf of Green Mountain Glass in its patent infringement lawsuit against Ardagh Glass, Inc. when a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware found Ardagh, formerly known as Saint-Gobain Containers, willfully infringed upon Green Mountain’s patented technology that allows glass manufacturers to use recycled glass of mixed colors. A final payment of $64.5 million was later made to Green Mountain. Read more.
Berry also represented Frank McCourt in marital proceedings in Los Angeles Superior Court that involved a dispute over the ownership of property, including the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the parties settled the original dispute, Jamie McCourt later sought to set aside the Stipulated Judgment and Marital Settlement Agreement, claiming that she did not know that the Dodgers Assets could sell for an amount exceeding $2 billion. After a hearing on the motion, the Court issued a Statement of Decision that rejected each of Jamie’s claims. The California Court of Appeal denied her appeal and the California Supreme Court denied her petition for review. Read more in the LA Times, the San Diego Tribune, AmLaw Daily, or here.
Berry joined Susman Godfrey after serving as a legal clerk to the Honorable Stephen S. Trott of the Ninth Circuit and as a legal extern to the Honorable Robert Lasnik of the Western District of Washington. He is a 20+ year member of the William L. Dwyer American Inn of Court and has been recognized by leading law publications including Lawdragon for his winning work.