Matthew Gerend

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Matthew Gerend: Attorney with Keller Rohrback L.L.P.

Biography

Matthew Gerend practices in the firm’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group, representing employees, benefit plans, and consumers in litigation to enforce antitrust laws and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”).

Matt has represented plaintiffs in federal courts across the country to redress harms stemming from breaches of fiduciary duties, investment fraud, anticompetitive conduct, and other misconduct that harms employees, benefit plans, and consumers.

Matt has also represented health plan members and health plans in litigation to hold pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufactures accountable for unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive practices that artificially drive up the prices for critical medications, such as the EpiPen and the MS drug Copaxone.

Matt became interested in the laws protecting retirement and health benefits as a clerk with AARP Foundation Litigation, where he helped draft a number of amicus curiae briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals regarding the proper interpretation and implementation of ERISA. During law school, Matt also worked as an intern with the Community Development Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Matt believes that lawyers have a unique ability to effect social change, an ethic that has guided his work representing individuals and benefit plans against those engaged in divisive and fraudulent practices.

Publications & Presentations

•Contributing Author, Zanglein et. al., ERISA Litigation (Bloomberg BNA) (2015-2016).
•Co-author with Deborah M. Austin, The Scope and Potential of Section 3 as Currently Implemented, 19 J. Affordable Housing & Commun. Dev. L. 89 (2009).

Recognitions

Honors & Awards

•The Best Lawyers in America, Seattle, Washington 2026:
•Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
•Selected to Super Lawyers list in Super Lawyers - Washington, 2025
•Selected to Rising Stars list in Super Lawyers - Washington, 2014-2022.
•National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Washington

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Areas of Practice (5)

  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation
  • Appeals
  • Class Action & Complex Litigation
  • Drug Pricing Litigation
  • Employee Benefits & Retirement Security (Erisa)

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
University of Wisconsin, B.A., Political Science, with distinction; Phi Beta Kappa, 2005
Law School Attended:
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude; Executive Articles Editor, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, 2010
Year of First Admission:
2010
Admission:
2010, Washington; 2011, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington; 2012, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; 2013, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; 2014, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; 2014, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; 2015, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; 2015, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado; 2016, Supreme Court of the United States; 2016, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; 2016, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; 2018, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 2018, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Memberships:

Professional and Civic Involvement

Washington State Bar Association, Member

Birth Information:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, March 15, 1982
Reported Cases:
Current Cases: Ascension Health and Ascension Health Alliance; Catholic Health East ( CHE ); Dignity Health; Saint Peter's Healthcare System
ISLN:
921308735

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971-396-5701  Phone

206-623-3384  Fax

www.krcomplexlit.com/attorney/matthew-gerend

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