Kellogg Hansen specializes in complex trial and appellate litigation. Our lawyers have extensive experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in trials and appeals throughout the United States. We pride ourselves on the exceptional results we achieve for our clients.

Kellogg Hansen’s lawyers possess outstanding credentials. Nearly all of our partners and associates graduated from top-tier law schools and served as law clerks for federal judges; more than a dozen clerked for Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Many of our lawyers have held significant positions in the federal government. Our lawyers have successfully litigated dozens of trials and appeals for our clients.

Kellogg Hansen’s expertise includes complex commercial litigation, Supreme Court and appellate litigation, governmental investigations and white-collar criminal defense, intellectual property litigation, and telecommunications law.

Kellogg Hansen hires only the most talented and motivated lawyers to join us in our fast-paced and challenging practice. Our philosophy is to offer new associates significant responsibility from the outset of their careers.

Matthew J. Wilkins

Associate

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Matthew Wilkins joined Kellogg Hansen as an associate in 2019. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wilkins served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Stephanos Bibas on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as well as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Royce C. Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Wilkins graduated with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was online content editor for the Texas Law Review and procedures editor for the American Journal of Criminal Law. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, graduating magna cum laude.

He has experience litigating disputes at the trial and appellate levels before state and federal courts and administrative agencies across a broad range of areas.

Publications

You Don’t Need Love . . . But It Helps: Insider-Trading Law After Salman, 106 KY. L.J. 433 (2018).

Note, Armed and Not Dangerous? A Mistaken Treatment of Firearms in Terry Analyses, 95 TEX. L. REV. 1165 (2017).

Education

The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with high honors, 2017

Online Content Editor, Texas Law Review
Procedures Editor, American Journal of Criminal Law
Order of the Coif
Dean’s Achievement Awards: Constitutional Law, Jurisdiction & Judgments, Federal Courts

Brigham Young University, B.S., magna cum laude, 2014

Clerkship

Law Clerk, Judge Stephanos Bibas, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2018-2019

Law Clerk, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2017-2018