Matt Alsip is an associate in the Commercial Litigation Group. Mr. Alsip's broad litigation practice has included shareholder derivative litigation, class action litigation, construction litigation, land use litigation, and other commercial litigation matters.

Significant Matters

• Mr. Alsip helped secure the termination of a $34 million shareholder derivative lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
• Mr. Alsip worked to secure summary judgment for a local government involved in a multi-million dollar land use dispute, and then assisted in successfully representing the client before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
• Mr. Alsip assisted in the successful defense of a major commercial real estate brokerage firm against a multi-million dollar counterclaim brought by a landowner who alleged breach of contract, fraud, and other causes of action.  He helped secure summary judgment in the trial court, and then successfully defended the brokerage firm in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, which affirmed the trial court judgment, and the Maryland Court of Appeals, which denied the landowner's petition for certiorari.
• Mr. Alsip assisted in the successful defense of a national retailer in two federal lawsuits alleging securities fraud against the company and its senior management, one a purported shareholder derivative action and the other a purported shareholder class action.  Among other things, Mr. Alsip was instrumental in researching and drafting the principal pleadings and motions necessary in the defense of the lawsuits, including extensive briefing on the impropriety of class certification under Fourth Circuit law.