Matthew Berry

Matt Berry represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts across the United States. Mr. Berry handles a wide variety of complex commercial litigation including patent infringement, antitrust, pharmaceutical disputes, legal malpractice, and large business disputes.

A member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2020, Mr. Berry was previously featured in Law360’s Plaintiffs Bar Perspective where he shared insights and advice on being a plaintiffs attorney. Mr. Berry was also named by Law360 as a “Rising Star – Trials” in 2017 and a “Rising Star – Intellectual Property” in 2018 for his winning litigation work. Lawdragon has also included Mr. Berry on their list of the 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers every year since 2020. Mr. Berry has also been named a Washington Super Lawyer each year for over a decade.

“Berry comes highly regarded as “very diligent, knowledgeable, and technically proficient”, earning praise for his expert handing of patent infringement and licensing disputes.”


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Mr. Berry is often at the center of precedent-setting, major litigation results.

In what was called the “Tech Trial of the Century” Mr. Berry and a team from Susman Godfrey were hired by Uber Technologies, Inc. just months before trial when Alphabet’s Waymo was claiming more than $1.86 billion in damages against Uber over allegations of stolen trade secrets in California federal court. Mr. Berry deposed Waymo’s damages expert and then filed the motion to exclude the expert and his $1.86 billion damages model, which was granted in full, leaving Waymo with no damages expert for trial. Benchmark Litigation awarded Mr. Berry and the Susman Godfrey team National Impact Case of the Year for their work on this matter. Read coverage in Bloomberg and Reuters.

Working at the helm of a major legal malpractice action, Mr. Berry joined a team of Susman Godfrey lawyers from its New York office to secure a confidential settlement with Proskauer Rose on behalf of California venture capitalist, Robert Adelman, who blamed Proskauer for a drafting error that he said cost him his $636 million stake in a hedge fund he co-founded. This widely followed case was written about in Bloomberg, Reuters, and ABA Journal.

Mr. Berry serves on the co-lead counsel team in an antitrust class action against the country’s largest real estate services companies and the National Association of Realtors. The class has reached proposed settlements of over $900 million with the National Association of Realtors and numerous brokerage defendants to resolve allegations that NAR and several of the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage companies implemented anticompetitive rules requiring real estate agents for home sellers to offer to pay buyer broker fees in addition to their own brokers’ commissions.

Mr. Berry previously won a $50.3 million jury verdict on behalf of Green Mountain Glass in its patent infringement lawsuit against Ardagh Glass, Inc. when a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware found Ardagh, formerly known as Saint-Gobain Containers, willfully infringed upon Green Mountain’s patented technology that allows glass manufacturers to use recycled glass of mixed colors. A final payment of $64.5 million was later made to Green Mountain. This verdict was profiled by Law360, and ranked among the National Law Journal’s “Top 100 Verdicts” of that year—it was ranked #34 overall and the 4^th highest IP verdict. Read more.

Mr. Berry also represented Frank McCourt in marital proceedings in Los Angeles Superior Court that involved a dispute over the ownership of property, including the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the parties settled the original dispute, Jamie McCourt later sought to set aside the Stipulated Judgment and Marital Settlement Agreement, claiming that she did not know that the Dodgers Assets could sell for an amount exceeding $2 billion. After a hearing on the motion, the Court issued a Statement of Decision that rejected each of Jamie’s claims. The California Court of Appeal denied her appeal and the California Supreme Court denied her petition for review. Read more in the LA Times, the San Diego Tribune, AmLaw Daily, or here.