Matthew Windman helps clients address an array of compliance, transactional, and litigation matters involving labor and employment, corporate and securities, entertainment law, contracts, real estate, and secured and commercial transactions. This includes advising clients in diverse industries such as healthcare, education, professional services, capital financing, nonprofits, manufacturing, entertainment, e-commerce, publishing, and transportation.
Matthew provides practical and strategic guidance to employers in labor and employment matters, including counseling them on employment-related agreements and representing them in all aspects of state and federal litigation involving such issues as wage and hour, governmental regulatory compliance, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and breaches of contract and restrictive covenants.
Matthew also helps clients in matters involving securities compliance, SEC reporting, secured loan agreements, intellectual property protection, e-commerce and technology contracts, antitrust regulations, and commercial litigation.
Prior to joining McCarter & English, Matthew worked at a boutique litigation firm in New York City, where he represented municipal corporations and private entities in all aspects of pre-trial litigation and managed complex cases involving class actions, mass torts, insurance coverage, product liability, environmental law, and defamation.
He is actively involved with pro bono organizations such as Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (through which he has provided pro bono legal services to writers and theater artists and presented CLE seminars), Pro Bono Partnership, and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.
Matthew’s articles have been published in the New York Law Journal and numerous other publications. He has written about theater for the newspaper amNewYork since 2004 and is a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle and Drama Desk Association. In 2016, his book The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future was published by McFarland.
Matthew received his BA from New York University, where he studied theater, literature, and journalism. He received his JD from New York Law School, where he was the Senior Editor of the New York Law School Review.
