Matthew Shaffer

Attorney

38 yrs experience
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Houston, TX

Bar admissions

Texas
Colorado
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan

Education

J.D.: University of Houston Law Center1987
Undergraduate: Southwest Texas State University1984

Awards and recognition

01Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
02Texas Super Lawyer (Texas Monthly), every year since 2006
03Best Lawyers in America - Admiralty and Maritime Law
04H Texas Magazine - Houston's Top Lawyers for the People
05American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Law (law school)
06Highest grade, Toxic Tort Seminar (law school)
07South Texas Law Review (1985-1986)

Memberships

Former chairman, Texas State Bar Grievance Committee District 4C

Background

Matthew D. Shaffer is a managing partner at Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, LLP in Houston, where he has represented thousands of injured workers across the United States. He joined the firm in 1992 after beginning his career representing large corporate clients. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, with a particular focus on admiralty and maritime law. He successfully settled the largest single-victim Jones Act case on record for a client with a brain injury and played a significant role in major maritime litigation including the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Notable cases

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Largest single-victim Jones Act case on record (brain injury client)
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Deepwater Horizon explosion litigation

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