Biography
For over a decade, Matthew H. Haverstick has represented both Fortune 500 companies and individuals in a host of white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, civil trial work, RICO, and construction defect matters. Matt also represents individuals, governmental entities and organizations in public corruption matters at the federal, state, and local level. Matt has expertise in securing and analyzing electronically stored information (ESI) from complex computer networks as part of the investigatory or discovery process.
Representative Matters include the following:
- Represented charter school involved in a federal criminal antitrust matter.
- Represented state legislator in federal civil rights lawsuit.
- Represented newspaper reporter under investigation for wrongfully obtaining data from a law enforcement website.
- Represented hedge fund manager accused of insider trading.
- Represented factory owner in multimillion dollar trial for damage during construction of a factory's concrete floor.
- Represented bank involved in insider trading investigation.
- Conducted internal investigation at medical device company where accounting fraud was suspected.
- Represented medical malpractice insurer in RICO claim brought by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Insurance Department.
- Represented high-profile securities broker under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for fraudulent conduct and ties to organized crime.
A frequent lecturer, Matt is often called upon by corporations to speak on-site to their officers on a wide variety of e-discovery and preventative litigation strategies. He is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, serving on the White Collar Crime Committee and Public Corruption and Extortion Subcommittee. Matt began his legal career at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, later practicing for many years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He serves as an adjunct professor at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University.
Publications
Co-Author, On the Taxpayer's Dime: Indemnity Rights for Public Officials Accused of Crimes, Bloomberg Law Reports - White Collar Crime, Vol. 1, No. 2 (August 2009).