Matthew D. Schelkopf

About Matthew

Matthew D. Schelkopf has extensive litigation experience throughout the United States and has successfully handled large complex class actions on behalf of millions of consumers against major auto manufacturers such as Honda, Toyota, Volvo, Hyundai, Kia, BMW, GM, Subaru, Ford, Volkswagen, Audi, Mazda, Chrysler and Nissan. He is a devoted litigator with an emphasis on catastrophic personal injury matters and complex class actions involving automotive defects, consumer protection, defective products and false advertising. Mr. Schelkopf currently serves as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous class actions related to product and automotive defect cases pending throughout the United States. He was selected to serve for two terms as President of the Class Action Trial Lawyers Association Top 25 (2022-2023 and 2023-2024 terms). He has also been honored as a Best Lawyer® in America (Mass Tort/Class Action) in 2022, 2023 and 2024. In 2022 and 2024, LawDragon recognized Mr. Schelkopf in its list of the “500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers”. In 2021, 2022 and 2023, he was selected as a Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyer. The Legal Intelligencer named Mr. Schelkopf in its 2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazers list. In 2020 and 2022, Mr. Schelkopf was selected to America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® in Pennsylvania. Since 2019, Mr. Schelkopf has been selected by the National Trial Lawyers Association as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania. Since 2010, Mr. Schelkopf has been selected by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and then a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. In 2012, The American Lawyer Media named Mr. Schelkopf as one of the “Lawyers on the Fast Track”. Mr. Schelkopf was also selected as a Top 40 under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers in 2012-2015.

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Colleagues at Sauder Schelkopf

Joseph G. Sauder

Partner

Joseph B. Kenney

Partner

Heather A. Swadley

Associate