Matthew G. Pletcher

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Matthew G. Pletcher: Attorney with Parsons McEntire McCleary PLLC
Attorney Awards
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer AV Preeminent Rating
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Biography

Matt handles high exposure cases involving professional liability, premises liability, catastrophic personal injuries, and wrongful death. He has also handled cases involving pharmaceutical products liability, first party insurance and bad faith claims, and complex commercial and business disputes.

Matt's professional liability experience includes medical, legal, and architectural malpractice cases. He has handled a broad range of legal malpractice cases involving issues such as negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, professional misconduct, conflicts of interest, and barratry. He has also handled medical and legal credentialing, discipline, and grievance proceedings.

His experience handling personal injury and wrongful death cases has included claims involving birth injuries, neurologic injuries, drowning injuries and deaths, mechanical asphyxiation, fires and explosions, burns, lightning strikes, automobile, trucking, and aviation accidents, highway and building construction accidents, oil field accidents, industrial accidents, sexual assault and abuse, elder and children abuse, and non-subscriber liability.

Matt's commercial and business litigation experience includes cases involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, breach of contract, tortious interference, civil conspiracy, securities fraud, and conversion. Matt has attained an AV® Preeminent™ peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, signifying the highest level of professional excellence based upon peer review evaluation from lawyers and judges who have observed Matt's legal skills and ethical standards.

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Areas of Practice (15)

  • Appellate Practice
  • Commercial/Business Litigation
  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Construction Litigation
  • Drug and Medical Device Defense
  • Employment Litigation
  • Ethics - Legal Malpractice
  • Health Care Litigation
  • Insurance Litigation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Personal Injury
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Professional Liability Defense
  • Securities Fraud

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Pepperdine University, B.S., Business Administration, 1984
Law School Attended:
South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1987
Year of First Admission:
1987
Admission:
1987, Texas; 2020, New Mexico; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas; U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
Memberships:

State Bar of Texas

New Mexico Bar Association

American Bar Association

Houston Bar Association

Texas Association of Defense Counsel

Greater Houston Society of Healthcare Risk Managers

Languages:
English
Birth Information:
Houston, Texas, 1961
Reported Cases:

Successful defense of numerous New Mexico hospitals, physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers in complex medical malpractice litigation involving deaths and catastrophic injuries including birth asphyxia and brain damage.

Successful defense of one of Texas' largest medical schools and its individual faculty members and tenured/associate professors in complex medical negligence litigation involving deaths and catastrophic injuries including many birth asphyxia and brain damage cases.

Favorable verdict for a prominent Houston plaintiffs' personal injury firm in two-month legal malpractice trial.

Successful representation of an energy service company in neurologic/brain injury case involving a lightning strike at a wellhead. Injury occurred in Louisiana and case was tried in McKinney, Texas under Louisiana law.

Successful representation and settlement for energy service company in closed head injury/brain injury case pending in North Dakota federal court.

Defense verdict for a nephrologist in wrongful death case involving chronic dialysis patient who went without dialysis for over two weeks.

Successful representation and confidential settlement for parents of a child who drowned in a country club swimming pool during summer camp.

Successful defense for multiple companies and individuals in commercial litigation involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conspiracy, conversion, and tortious interference of business relationships.

Defense of major pharmaceutical corporation in litigation throughout Texas including primary responsibility for handling all aspects of medical expert discovery which included retention of defense medical experts, handling of expert challenges and other pretrial conferences and hearings.

Successful of prominent plastic surgeon in litigation involving breast reconstruction surgeries and multiple revision surgeries and post-operative infections.

Defense of several nursing homes in litigation involving claims of nursing and medical negligence, as well as claims of elder abuse and injury.

ISLN:
904395691

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