Matthew L.J.D. Dowell

• Counsel to one of the nation’s largest health care services companies in criminal and civil proceedings related to a multimillion dollar alleged Medicaid fraud.
• Successfully compelled arbitration against more than 18,000 class members while representing the nation’s largest flooring manufacturer in multidistrict antitrust litigation.
• Counsel to numerous agricultural producers and processors in breach of contract and other commercial litigation.
• Advised multinational companies on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act liability.
• Represented an independent auditor in a nationwide review of allegedly improper foreclosure practices by mortgage servicers.
• Assisted a major online automobile advertiser in ensuring its practices complied with a patchwork of state regulations governing automobile sales.

Matthew Dowell is a senior associate in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group whose practice focuses on government investigations and complex litigation. Matthew has conducted extensive internal investigations and worked on criminal and civil proceedings related to alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Matthew has also worked on multidistrict litigation, antitrust class actions, and complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts.

In 2014, the U.S. Department of State recognized Matthew for his service with the Hague Convention Attorney Network, a group of lawyers that provides pro bono legal services to parents whose children have been abducted to the United States.

Matthew received his J.D., with honors, from Emory University School of Law in 2011. At Emory, Matthew was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an articles editor on the Emory Law Journal. While in law school, he interned for the Honorable T. Jackson Bedford, Jr., of the Superior Court of Fulton County and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.

Prior to law school, Matthew worked as an analyst for a trade organization in Washington, D.C., representing electric power producers before Congress and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Matthew received a Diplôme du Programme International in 2005 from the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), in Paris.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Emory University (J.D., 2011)
• Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 2006)

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