Matthew F. Medeiros

Partner

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(401) 272-8080/Ext. 242

Areas of Practice

Business Dispute Resolution

Experience

Matt has nearly 40 years of experience in business dispute resolution throughout the country, including antitrust, securities, employment discrimination, contract, fraud and partnership and shareholder litigation. Matt has represented plaintiffs and defendants, in hundreds of lawsuits, involving literally billions of dollars of damages claims. He has a reputation for exhaustive trial preparation in complex litigation, particularly jury trials. He frequently is the attorney of choice for other lawyers and law firms needing representation in sophisticated commercial disputes. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America from its inception and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Matt is a graduate of Brown University and New York University School of Law, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedure and Federal Trial Practice.

Matt began his career as a law clerk for Chief Judge Raymond J. Pettine of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Thereafter he was associated with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. before returning to his native Rhode Island and joining Edwards & Angell in 1977 as a partner. He left in 1987 to found Flanders + Medeiros, one of the region's most prominent commercial litigation firms. He joined Little Medeiros Kinder Bulman & Whitney in October 2000.

He has represented such major corporations as Sony, Lockheed, IBM, Metropolitan Life, Merrill Lynch, National Grid, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, the National Football League and Citadel Communications.

Education

A.B., Brown University, 1967
J.D., New York University, 1970 (Editor, New York University Law Review)

Bar Memberships

Rhode Island (1970)
District of Columbia (1971)
Massachusetts (1985)
Federal Court (U.S. Court of Appeals, First and District of Columbia Circuits, U.S. Supreme Court)

Professional Memberships & Honors

Martindale Hubbell Attorney Rating - AV 

The American Board of Trial Advocates - Treasurer, Rhode Island Chapter

Southern New England School of Law - Adjunct Professor, Trial Practice

Best Lawyers in America - recognized for over 20 years
     Selected for Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation

Chambers USA
     Recommended in General Litigation, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Superlawyers
     Honored in 2007, 2008, and 2009

Reported Cases

Bacou-Dalloz USA Inc. v. Continental Polymers, Inc., 2005 WL 615752 (D.R.I. 2005) (contract)

Bowen Court Associates v. Ernst & Young, LLP, 818 A.2d 723 (R.I. 2003) (accountant liability)

Goncalves v. NMU Pension Trust, 818 A.2d 67 (R.I. 2003) (ERISA)

S.E.C. v. Fife, 311 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2002) (securities)

Toste Farm Corp v. Hadbury, Inc., 798 A.2d 901 (R.I. 2002) (legal malpractice)

Aldridge v. A.T. Cross Corp., 284 F.3d 72 (1st Cir. 2002) (securities)

Kinney v. Metro Global Media, Inc., 170 F. Supp 2d 173 (D.R.I. 2001) (securities)

Cerberus Partners, L.P. v. Gadsby & Hannah, 728 A.2d 1057 (R.I. 1999) (legal malpractice)

Summer Infant Products, Inc. v. Playskool Baby Products, Inc., 963 F. Supp. 86 (D.R.I. 1997) (patent)

Vitone v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 954 F. Supp. 37 (D.R.I. 1997) (RICO)

Simon v. American Power Conversion Corp., 945 F. Supp. 416 (D.R.I. 1996) (securities)

Piester v. International Business Machines Corp., 929 F. Supp. 595 (D.R.I. 1996) (product liability)

In re GTECH Holdings Corp. Securities Litigation, 32 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 604 (D.R.I. 1995) (securities)

Potter v. Bennett, 826 F. Supp. 62 (D.R.I. 1993) (wrongful death)

Sullivan v. Tagliabue, 785 F. Supp. 1076 (D.R.I. 1992) (antitrust)

Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, 794 F. Supp. 72 (D.R.I. 1992) (health care)

Richard v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 604 A.2d 1260 (R.I. 1992) (ERISA)

Gannon v. Narragansett Elec. Co., 777 F. Supp. 167 (D.R.I. 1991) (employment discrimination)

Hatch v. O'Brien, 772 F. Supp. 1326 (D.R.I. 1991) (wrongful death)

Charland v. Country View Golf Club, Inc., 588 A.2d 609 (R.I. 1991) (shareholder valuation)

Transnational Corp. v. Rodio & Ursillo, Ltd., 920 F.2d 1066 (1st Cir. 1990) (contract)

Clark v. Moran, 749 F. Supp. 1186 (D.R.I. 1990) (habeas corpus)

Bogosian v. Woloohojian, 749 F. Supp. 396 (D.R.I. 1990) (corporate dissolution)

E. H. Ashley & Co., Inc. v. Wells Fargo Alarm Services, 907 F.2d 1274 (1st Cir. 1990) (contract)

Congdon v. Jacobson, 131 F.R.D. 35 (D.R.I. 1990) (shareholder dispute)

Friends of Sakonnet v. Dutra, 738 F. Supp. 623 (D.R.I. 1990) (environmental)

PY Small Boats, Inc. v. International Marine Marketing Corp., 16 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 452 (D.R.I. 1990) (trademark)

Fleet Credit Corp. v. Sion, 893 F.2d 441 (1st Cir. 1990) (RICO)

Westerly Residents for Thoughtful Development, Inc. v. Brancato, 565 A.2d 1262 (R.I. 1989) (municipal)

Pfarr v. Island Services Co., Inc., 124 F.R.D. 24 (D.R.I. 1989) (antitrust)

Ferris v. General Dynamics Corp., 645 F. Supp. 1354 (D.R.I. 1986) (ERISA)

Hasbro Industries, Inc. v. Norberg, 487 A.2d 124 (R.I. 1985) (tax)

Damiani v. Rhode Island Hosp., 704 F.2d 12 (1st Cir. 1983) (antitrust)

Rhode Island Affiliate, American Civil Liberties Union, Inc v. Rhode Island Lottery Comm., 553 F.Supp. 752 (D.R.I. 1982) (constitutional)

Homefinder's of America, Inc. v. Providence Journal Co., 471 F. Supp. 416 (D.R.I. 1979) (antitrust)

Providence Journal Co. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 460 F. Supp. 778 (D.R.I. 1978) (FOIA)

Rhode Island Committee On Energy v. General Services Administration, 561 F.2d 397 (1st Cir. 1977) (environmental)

Holden v. Mathews, 554 F.2d 1190 (D.C. Cir. 1977) (civil rights)

Hopkins v. Baker, 553 F.2d 1339 (D.C.Cir. 1977) (negligence)

U.S. v. Anderson, 490 F.2d 785 (D.C.Cir. 1974) (criminal)