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Matthew B. Gibbons

Matthew B. Gibbons

Associate

Matt Gibbons is a former United States Marine Corps infantry squad leader, a combat veteran, and now a litigator in state and federal courts. Matt assists people and businesses in the pre-complaint, pretrial, trial, and appellate stages of litigation, and his practice includes:

Representing clients in complex commercial litigation regarding intellectual property, trade secrets, and unfair trade practices;
Defending people and entities against government investigations;
Representing individuals who have been injured.

Prior to joining Shipman, he was an attorney in North Carolina, and before that he was a law clerk for the Honorable U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also worked as a legal intern for the National Security Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. full time for one semester during law school.

Credentials

Education

Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2019
Rutgers University, B.A., 2016

Bar Admissions

North Carolina
Connecticut

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court, Western District of NC
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of NC
U.S. District Court, Middle District of NC
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. District Court, District of CT

Distinctions

Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer Rising Star®: General Litigation (2024)
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL)
American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Class Actions & Derivative Suits Committee
Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court