Matthew D. Easton

About Matthew

Matt Easton is the Co-Managing Partner of Easton & Easton, LLP primarily responsible for shepherding the business aspects of the firm’s meteoric growth since 2019. Matt has also been a central figure in some of Easton & Easton’s most prominent cases, including a $32,000,000 policy limits settlement in 2024, a $26,000,000 settlement in 2023, a 2019 mediated settlement for $20,000,000, a 2022 mediated settlement for $7,000,000, and a 2016 settlement for $3,060,000 - all of which were selected as Top Million-Dollar Settlements in California for their respective years and which contributed to Matt’s lifetime selection to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum® - The Top Trial Lawyers in America® (an honor given to less than 1% of all attorneys in the United States). Matt has been selected each year since 2023 as a Southern California Super Lawyer. Prior to that, he was selected each year from 2016 - 2022 among Super Lawyers’ Up-and-Coming Top 100 (Southern California) and Super Lawyers’ Up-and-Coming Top 25 (Orange County), honors given to less than 1% of attorneys. Matt has also been chosen each year since 2018 as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Plaintiff’s Personal Injury and Product Liability Litigation. Best Lawyers selects attorneys who have earned peer recognition through exemplary legal work that attracts the notice of their colleagues. Lawyers cannot buy their way onto this list. Matt has also been featured among Southern California’s “Best Lawyers” each year since 2017 in the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times Magazine. Additionally, he has been chosen each year since 2023 among the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers; and prior to that was selected from 2014 - 2022 for the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in California, honors given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in Southern California. Matt has also been selected each year since 2015 for the American Academy of Trial Attorneys’ Premier 100 Trial Attorneys, the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys “10 Best” Attorneys for California, the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys’ Top 10 Under 40, and for the highest AV Preeminent rating offered by Martindale-Hubbell, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious peer rating service for legal ability and ethics. The recognition that Matt is receiving from his peers in the legal community is not surprising, as he first came to our firm with high marks and accomplishments in college and law school. He received his B.A. in 2006 from Brigham Young University, where he majored in English and minored in Philosophy and Editing. Whittier Law School awarded Matt a full academic scholarship and he received his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Whittier Law School, graduating in the top 10% of his class in 2009. He was admitted to the California Bar in 2009. While at Whittier Law School, Matt was chosen as the “Best Oral Advocate” of the 3rd Annual Susan E. McGuigan Oral Advocacy Competition and “Best Overall Competitor” of the 2008 Spring Trial Advocacy Competition. He also competed in numerous external oral advocacy competitions on behalf Whittier Law School’s Trial Advocacy Honors Board and Moot Court Honors Board, which took him as far as Vienna, Austria in Competition. In 2008, Matt was selected as the Chief Justice of the Moot Court Honors Board and served in that position from 2008 till his graduation in 2009. Based on the significant trial skills and incorporation of trial technology that Matt has brought to bear in his cases, he was asked to join the faculty at Whittier Law School as an Adjunct Professor to teach a class on Trial Technology from 2015 - 2017. Matt was also a graduating member of Whittier’s prestigious Law Review, where he assisted in the editing and publication of numerous scholarly legal articles. In addition, Matt’s own article was published in the Whittier Law Review in Fall 2008 (Volume 30, Number 1). Matt’s article, “Disparate Outcomes Among Medical Malpractice Victims: A New Look at an Equal Protection Challenge to MICRA,” allowed him to passionately address the continuing problems that MICRA poses to California medical malpractice victims, which is an issue he has seen the effects of first-hand through his work at Easton & Easton. Since joining Easton & Easton, Matt has litigated hundreds of cases for meritorious plaintiffs, including important cases against the State of California, numerous cities, numerous school districts, and countless large corporate entities and other defendants. Matt has acquired more than $100,000,000 for his clients by way of verdict, settlement, or arbitration award. Apart from the verdict and settlement funds Matt has acquired for his clients, he has also been able to affect lasting change in how corporations, cities, and the state of California conduct themselves in order to prevent similar future injuries. For example, as part of Matt’s handling of a roadway defect bicycle case against the state of California, the state of California later coordinated complex efforts with the cities of Newport Beach and Irvine to correct the dangerous condition relating to the designated bike lane at the location of the incident. Matt is the second youngest son of Doug and Rae Easton and grew up most of his life with the strong desire to work with his father and brothers in providing passionate service to the legal community. Matt spent almost every summer since High School working for the law firm in various capacities and, in doing so, he saw how lawyers like his father could really help the ordinary person achieve extraordinary and needed aid in their individual lives. This inspired Matt to become a lawyer and continue the Easton’s legacy of helping the ordinary man achieve justice, no matter how big of a goliath he may be facing off against. While Matt grew up in Orange County and has a strong love for the community here, he also spent two years abroad in Mexico City on a mission for his church. There he sincerely fell in love with the Hispanic culture and the people that so warmly welcomed him into their lives. He also became fluent in Spanish, which has allowed him to help clients in Southern California that do not speak English. Matt is also an Eagle Scout and continues to enjoy many outdoor activities including camping, mountain biking, snow skiing, rock climbing, waterskiing, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, golf, and tennis. Matt has a strong sense of family commitment, much like his parents, and truly feels blessed to work alongside his family at Easton & Easton. In addition, Matt and his beautiful wife Rachel have four children.

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Colleagues at Easton & Easton, LLP

W. Douglas Easton

Founding Partner

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Brian W. Easton

Co-Managing Partner

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Annie C. Lu

Associate Attorney

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Brenda Kocaj

Associate Attorney

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Travis R. Easton

Co-Managing Partner

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Mani Navab

Senior Associate