Matthew E. Yarbrough

Matthew E. Yarbrough is a renowned expert in digital discovery. He has 20 years legal and investigative experience working both as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and in private legal practice. He is a trial lawyer with extensive jury trial experience in both civil and criminal matters. The Yarbrough Law Group focuses on complex business litigation, including intellectual property, cybercrimes, government investigations, internal investigations, financial fraud, and technology-related litigation. 

Mr. Yarbrough served as head of the Cybercrimes and Criminal Intellectual Property Task Force for the Department of Justice and was tapped by former Texas Attorney General John Cornyn to be Special Counsel to assist in the creation of the Texas Internet Bureau—a precedent-setting mission in fighting child predators, child pornography, identity theft, fraud, breach of computer security, telecommunications fraud and property crimes.

Sought after by the media as a digital expert, Mr. Yarbrough has appeared on such programs as ABC’s Nightline and 20/20, CNN, MSNBC, Fox National News and A&E’s Investigative Reports with Bill Curtis. He often speaks to clients on behalf of corporations such as IBM, Cisco and Sprint concerning corporate compliance and litigation and its impact on Fortune 500 companies. Referred to by The Texas Lawyer as an attorney that “companies turn to,” Mr. Yarbrough’s expertise and professionalism have made him a trusted advisor to U.S. businesses.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Yarbrough served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where he established the Cyber-crimes Task Force and pioneered the prosecution of cybercrime and online fraud. He was the lead prosecutor in “Operation Seek and Keep,” a year-long investigation by the INS that succeeded in discovering and breaking up what then United States Attorney General Janet Reno described as the “largest alien smuggling organization to ever be completely dismantled.”

Mr. Yarbrough has been named one of the top business trial lawyers in the country by the National Law Journal, and named a Texas Super Lawyer for the tenth consecutive year in the Texas Super Lawyers list published in Texas Monthly magazine. Yarbrough has been featured on the high-profile list every year since its inception in 2003.  A graduate of SMU Law School and a former editor of the SMU Law Review, he has also served as an SMU Adjunct Law Professor in Trial Advocacy and Computer Crimes and Technology Litigation.