Overview

Matt Donahue is a Senior Associate at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, where he focuses on personal injury, wrongful death, mass torts, and other complex civil litigation.

Matt is an experienced trial attorney. Before joining the firm, Matt worked as an Assistant District Attorney with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office where he prosecuted complex felony and domestic violence cases. Matt has tried nine cases to verdict. He also teaches Trial Advocacy at U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings).

Matt received his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law and his B.A. from George Washington University. After law school, he clerked for Judge Sally D. Adkins on the Maryland Supreme Court.  

Honors & Awards

Honors & Recognitions

Executive Editor, Washington & Lee Law Review

Affiliations

Civic

Board Member, Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club

Representative, San Francisco Police Department LGBTQ Advisory Forum

Chief’s Advisor, San Francisco Police Department Community Police Advisory Forum

Professional

San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF)

Education

Washington & Lee University School of Law, J.D., 2018 (cum laude)

George Washington University, B.A., 2011

Admissions

  • California

Clerkships

  • Judge Sally D. Adkins, Maryland Supreme Court
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