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Matthew Laver focuses his practice on professional liability and has particular experience in the defense of lawyers.Matthew also handles matters in major litigation areas, including the defense of corporations in product liability actions that involve catastrophic injury or death. Matthew represents restaurants in all aspects of the industry including contracts, leases, alcohol beverage law (licensing and litigation) and business start-up and entity formation.Matthew is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.Matthew currently serves as an Executive Committee Member of both the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel. Matthew is also a certified Arbitrator for the Philadelphia Arbitration Center. Matthew is a frequent lecturer on Social Media and Ethics. These programs have included discussions on the uses of social media in discovery, pleadings practice, interactions with the court and with the client. A key focus is also the consequences of unethical social media use.In addition, Matthew has authored articles for the following publications:- The Legal Intelligencer;- Law 360- Bloomberg Social Media Law and Policy Report- Pennsylvania Law Weekly;- Riding the E&O Line, the Professional Liability Committee newsletter of the Defense Research Institute;- At Issue, a publication by and for the Young Lawyers Division of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; and - The University of Maryland Journal of Business and Technology Law.

Listed skills include Civil Litigation, Litigation, Legal Research, Appeals, and 3 others.