Matthew Fogelman
Founding Partner | Fogelman Law LLC
Matthew Fogelman is a employment law, personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer and founding partner at Fogelman Law LLC in Newton, Massachusetts. Admitted in Massachusetts and New York; J.D., Boston College Law School (2002).
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Matthew J. Fogelman is a founding partner of Fogelman Law LLC in Newton, Massachusetts, and president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys for 2026-27. His trial practice centers on employment law and personal injury, representing workers facing discrimination, retaliation and wage violations as well as people with catastrophic injuries and families in wrongful death cases.
Fogelman won a landmark disability discrimination ruling before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the Barbuto case, which addressed an employee’s right to use medical marijuana away from work. He has also secured a $2.46 million jury verdict in a race and gender discrimination case, a $1.2 million age discrimination verdict, a $2.2 million wrongful death and dram shop settlement, and an $11.5 million catastrophic injury settlement in 2024.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, and graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School in 2002. Before starting his firm he was an associate at Todd & Weld LLP and Bingham McCutchen. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named him a Lawyer of the Year for 2017, and he has been listed among the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Massachusetts from 2018 to 2025.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D. cum laude, Boston College Law School, 2002
- B.A. in English, Wesleyan University, 1997
- Admitted, all Massachusetts state courts
- Admitted, all New York state courts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Supreme Court
Practice Areas
- Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (President, 2026-2027)
- Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Board of Governors)
- Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association
- Top 100 Super Lawyers, Massachusetts, 2018–2025
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Lawyer of the Year, 2017
- USA500 Lawyer of the Year, 2017
- New England and Massachusetts Super Lawyers (employment law), 2014–2018
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2007 and 2010–2013
- $11.5 Million Settlement: Catastrophic personal injury settlement in 2024, described as one of the largest in Massachusetts that year.
- $2.46 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a race and gender discrimination case in Middlesex County for a Black female HR professional terminated by Brandeis University.
- $2.2 Million Settlement: Wrongful death and dram shop settlement for the estate of a man who drowned after being overserved at a Boston restaurant/bar.
- $1.2 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in an age discrimination case in Norfolk County for a 64-year-old mechanic terminated after 27 years of employment.
- Supreme Judicial Court Win: Prevailed before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Barbuto, a disability discrimination case involving an employee's right to use medical marijuana off-site.
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