Matt Feller
CEO | Feller & Wendt, LLC
Matt Feller is a trucking accidents, car accidents and nursing home abuse trial lawyer and CEO of Feller & Wendt, LLC in Layton, Utah. Admitted in Utah, Arizona and Idaho; J.D., University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law (2009).
Meet Matt
R. Matthew “Matt” Feller is a co-founder and CEO of Feller & Wendt, LLC, a personal injury firm based in Layton, Utah, with offices in Utah, Arizona and Idaho. He represents people hurt in truck, car and motorcycle crashes and brings claims against nursing homes and care facilities, hospitals, schools and other institutions in cases involving brain injuries, carbon monoxide poisoning, sexual abuse and wrongful death. He is licensed in Utah, Arizona and Idaho.
Feller grew up in Utah and studied at Utah State University and Weber State University. He earned his law degree in 2009 from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he received a certificate of trial advocacy. After starting out in business litigation in Salt Lake City, he co-founded Feller & Wendt to represent injured people, and the firm spent three years handling a public defender contract for Weber County. He argued Zeller v. Nixon before the Utah Supreme Court.
His recoveries listed by the firm include a $3.8 million result for a motorcycle rider with a traumatic brain injury and a $2.8 million result in a head-on trucking crash in Colorado. He serves on the board of the Utah Association for Justice and has taught other lawyers as faculty and an assistant dean with the National Trial College.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, 2009
- Certificate of Trial Advocacy, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, 2008
- Licensed in Utah
- Licensed in Arizona
- Licensed in Idaho
Practice Areas
- Utah Association for Justice (Board Member; Education Committee Volunteer)
- Utah State Bar
- Federal Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Davis County Bar Association
- Rex E. Lee American Inn of Court
- Prevent Child Abuse Utah (Board Member)
- National Trial College (Faculty; Certified Instructor; Assistant Dean)
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff, 2020-2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Nursing Home Top 10, 2022-2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Trucking Top 10, 2022-2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Brain Injury Top 25, 2022-2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, 2017-2020
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2017-2018
- Elite Lawyer, Personal Injury, 2022-2023
- American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys, 10 Best Attorneys, 2019-2023
- Attorney of the Year, National Alliance of Attorneys, 2023
- Top 40 Under 40, The American Society of Legal Advocates, 2018
- $3.8 Million Recovery: Traumatic brain injury from a motorcycle crash in Utah.
- $3 Million Recovery: Sexual molestation at a therapeutic boarding school, on behalf of several claimants in Utah.
- $2.8 Million Recovery: Head-on trucking crash in Colorado.
- $2 Million Settlement: Resolved more than 100 cases against a hospital that failed to properly qualify, train and hire an ER nurse who exposed patients to dangerous viruses.
- $1.2 Million Recovery: Car crash wrongful death case in Utah.
- $1,055,000 Recovery: Trucking rollover crash in Idaho.
- $1 Million Recovery: Sexual molestation at a therapeutic boarding school in Utah.
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