Matthew T. Bechtel

Matt is a civil litigator with extensive experience in ERISA (employee benefits) and general employment law. He has represented public entities, construction industry multiemployer Taft-Hartley benefit plans, and individual employees. His clients have included the Southern California Operating Engineers trust funds, the Southern California IBEW-NECA trust funds and their Administrative Corporation, and the Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16. Matt currently represents clients in various business and employment contexts, including contracts, wage and hour compliance, prevailing wage, and wrongful termination. In 2006, Matt completed his first year at Southwestern Law School at the top of his class. He then transferred to UC Hastings College of the Law, from which he graduated in 2008. Matt served as an editor of the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, and was a recipient of a Best Brief award for the Snodgrass Moot Court Competition. Matt was admitted to practice law in 2008. He has been admitted to practice in all California State and Federal Courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• Partner

• California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit