“If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees – at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.”
– John L. Lewis
Matt Koski
Matt Koski has devoted his entire legal career to protecting, strengthening, and vindicating the rights of employees, and possesses a deep and thorough understanding of the laws enacted for their benefit. He represents California workers in numerous types of cases, including discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wage theft, whistleblowing, and wrongful termination. He has obtained highly favorable results for his clients before administrative agencies, in state and federal courts, and in arbitration.
Before joining McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, Matt was the Program Director for the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), a nationwide bar association of thousands of plaintiff-side employment lawyers. In that position, he coordinated NELA’s Continuing Legal Education, Amicus, and Judicial Nominations Programs, as well as NELA’s advocacy efforts before various federal agencies. He also has previous experience working for multiple plaintiff-side employment firms, where he gained practical experience litigating employment cases under both California and federal law.
Matt began his career as the first Paul H. Tobias Fellow at the National Institute for Workers’ Rights (“NIWR”), where he worked on projects related to access to justice, the misuse of summary judgment in federal employment cases, and improving discovery in employment cases in federal courts through the development of initial discovery protocols that currently are utilized in numerous federal district courts across the country.
Matt graduated with distinction from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. In law school, he was the Articles Editor for the McGeorge Global Business and Development Law Journal and a member of the Roger Traynor Honor Society