Matthew Thomas Theriault

Matthew Theriault is a partner with Capstone Law. He manages and assists the firm’s class action certification efforts and trials. Over the course of his career, Matt has successfully certified numerous employee classes for claims involving misclassification, meal and rest breaks, and off-the-clock work, ultimately resulting in multi-million dollar settlements. He also has successfully obtained a writ of mandate directing the trial court to reconsider its decision compelling arbitration and dismissing the plaintiff’s class allegations on the basis of an arbitration agreement that expressly disallowed the plaintiff’s enforcement of the California Labor Code by way of class action.

Matt is experienced in consumer litigation involving auto dealership fraud, loan financing, and debt collection practices, as well as employment matters. He joined Capstone Law after several years as a partner with one of the largest plaintiffs’ class action firms in California. Matt graduated in 2001 from Western New England School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts, and received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Connecticut.

Matt is admitted to practice law in California and before the United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.