Matthew J. Walko

Practice Areas

Appeals

Business Litigation

Construction

Contracts

Fire & Explosion Litigation

Insurance Coverage

Insurance Defense

Litigation

Premises Liability

Product Liability Litigation

Zoning Litigation

Career

- Successfully represented an industrial oven manufacturer against a claim that a product defect caused a $14 million factory fire loss, convincing the plaintiff to accept a low five-figure settlement.

- Obtained numerous procedural and substantive dismissals of lawsuits that wrongfully accused clients of negligence.

- Achieved numerous favorable compromise settlements of claims against general contractors and subcontractors alleging negligence, fire loss, and wrongful death.

-Briefed and argued the successful appeal that helped convince the Commonwealth’s Supreme Judicial Court to apply the federal expert witness admissibility standard from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993) to civil cases. See Canavan's Case, 432 Mass. 304, 733 N.E.2d 1042 (2000)

Professional Memberships

Massachusetts Bar Association

Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association

Defense Research Institute

New York Bar Association

Publications

Massachusetts Bar Association

Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association

Defense Research Institute

New York Bar Association

Personal

JD, magna cum laude, Albany Law School of Union University (class rank 3 of 264), 1992

Associate Editor, Albany Law Review; Justinian Society

AB, Dartmouth College, 1989