About Matthew A.
Matthew A. Schwartz entered regulation from a background in politics and liberal arts. He earned an A.B. in politics from Princeton University in 2000, after beginning his undergraduate work in 1996. He continued his research at Columbia Law School, receiving his J.D. in 2003. Those educational years shaped an early interest in the intersection of public institutions and private practice.
Schwartz started his legal career within the federal courts. After law program he served as a regulation clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 2003. That clerkship was followed by a position at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, the place he joined the company as an affiliate in 2004. He later returned to the judiciary as a regulation clerk at the highest court of the United States in 2006, a knowledge that exposed him to excessive-stakes appellate work and complex legal questions.
By 2012 he had moved into firm management as a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Over the years at two of New York’s famous firms he has balanced court publicity, appellate knowledge, and counsel work for company clients. His profession trail traces a steady shift from clerkships to associate work and then to partnership, a progression that reflects lengthy-term engagement with each litigation and transactional practice environments.
Schwartz is licensed to practice in New York and holds club within the New York State Bar. That connection to the New York bar has been central to his practice, which is primarily based in that jurisdiction. His professional life has been anchored in giant-firm environments, the place institutional clients and significant legal questions are ordinary features of the docket.
Colleagues describe him as methodical and attentive to the procedural details that matter in appellate and trial settings. Clients and courtroom personnel who've worked with him have noted a cautious approach to legal writing and oral argument, developed at some point of his years of clerkship and strengthened in personal practice. His work ethic displays lengthy knowledge in high-pressure settings and a choice for actual legal analysis.
He presently practices in New York as a companion at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, representing clients and providing legal counsel on things springing up in federal and state courts.
