Matthew A. Porter

Matthew A. Porter is a Principal and the Office Litigation Manager in the Boston, Massachusetts, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He concentrates his practice exclusively on employment litigation and counseling.

Mr. Porter routinely advises employers on a wide variety of employment law issues, including allegations of unlawful discrimination, employee discipline and discharge, disability management, reductions in force, non-competition agreements, and litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. He also has extensive class action experience.

Mr. Porter has substantial trial experience, and appears frequently in state and federal courts in employment-related litigation. He also defends employers in administrative proceedings at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and other state human rights agencies. Mr. Porter has litigated extensively in many different state and federal courts throughout the United States. Prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Mr. Porter was a partner with a prominent international law firm.

While at Boston University, Mr. Porter was elected Executive Editor of the Boston University Law Review and received numerous awards for outstanding academic achievement.

Blog Posts

e-Discovery
Federal Court In Washington Sanctions Attorney For Citing “Badly Out Of Date” Case Law
August 22, 2016

Defense counsel was sanctioned by a federal court in Washington for bringing a motion to compel in bad faith, with the court finding that defense counsel’s citation of case law analyzing a prior version of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was “inexcusable.” In Fulton v. Livingston Fin. LLC, (W.D.

By Brett M. Anders and Matthew A. Porter

In the News

November 20, 2015

Jackson Lewis

Jackson Lewis Publishes Q3 Diversity Committee Newsletter

Please enjoy our Diversity Committee Newsletter for the third quarter of 2015. A best practice of our firm, it includes personal, diversity-focused messages from our Diversity Committee Chair and Diversity Committee Manager, and highlights diverse attorney promotions, diversity-related activities, sponsorships and events the firm has...