Matthew I. Kaplan

Matthew I. Kaplan is a Partner in the Los Angeles office of Tucker Ellis & West LLP. He has a wide range of litigation experience in State and Federal Courts at both trial and appellate levels. Mr. Kaplan’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including commercial disputes and foreclosures, Truth in Lending and Real Estate Settlement Practices claims, unfair competition and consumer class actions, trade secret, insurance, and environmental lawsuits. He has worked extensively with expert witnesses to assemble evidence needed to prove property valuation, economic damages, toxic exposures and medical causation. Mr. Kaplan has also worked on disputes involving construction, franchising, toxic tort, product liability and governmental investigations and enforcement actions.

Mr. Kaplan received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, cum laude, in 1993. While in law school he clerked for the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Michigan in 1989. Mr. Kaplan is a member of the American and Los Angeles County Bar Associations.
 

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