Mr. Matthews has been selected as a party chosen arbitrator, chosen to serve on a panel or as the Chair, or appeared as trial counsel in well over thirty-five arbitrations and has been named a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of International Arbitration.
For the past 45 years, he has successfully tried over 40 disputes to a jury verdict in federal and state courts, focusing on business litigation, particularly lawsuits involving offshore drilling, pipeline contracts, plant construction and operations, and other aspects of the oil and gas industry. He also has achieved statewide recognition in the professional liability defense of lawyers, bank trustees, accountants, board members and other fiduciaries, as well as having consulted, been designated and testified as an expert witness as to legal/fiduciary ethics and as to the reasonableness and necessity of attorney fees.
Mr. Matthews has been selected as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, has served as a National Director and President of the Houston chapter of The American Board of Trial advocates and has been elected as a Fellow of the American Law Institute, where he serves as a member of the consulting groups drafting revisions to the Restatement of Law, U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration and for revisions to the Restatement of Law Governing Lawyers. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (published by Woodward/White, Inc.) annually for more than 15 years.
He also has been chosen as one of the 500 leading lawyers in America by the editors of Law Dragon and has been recognized as among the best lawyers in America for “Bet-the-Company” litigation, commercial litigation, and legal malpractice law over the past ten years (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward White Inc.).
Fees charged both for his work as an arbitrator and his service as consultant and expert witness depend somewhat on the complexity of and the sums in controversy in the dispute, but generally are on an hourly rate, which at this time is $500, while claims involving less than $1,000,000 would be $350 to $400. If the assignment requires travel, reasonable expenses for that travel and lodging will also be charged.