Matt Garretson is the founding partner of The Garretson Law Firm which provides mass tort / class action sallocation and fund administration services. The firm also handles Medicare / Medicaid reimbursement claims, government benefit preservation strategies, and probate administration for individual and mass tort plaintiffs. Additionally, he is the President of The SettlementGroup which provides structured settlement and settlement-related trust services. He received his BA Yale University and his law degree at Kentucky’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Matt is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars about lawyers’ professional responsibilities in individual or mass tort settlements. He has spoken at seminars sponsored by numerous state trial lawyer associations, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Mealey’s and Mass Torts Made Perfect. Matt has authored several articles regarding professional responsibility in individual and mass tort settlements that have been published in Trial Magazine, The American Bar Association’s The Professional Lawyer, Ohio Trial, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers Journal, Utah Trial Journal, and Insurance Day in the United Kingdom. In 2005, Loyola University Journal of Public Interest Law published an article by Matt entitled A Practical Approach to Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in Aggregate Settlements. Matt is an adjunct professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he teaches a course on law practice management with an emphasis on how to avoid professional liability claims. Matt’s "form-of-settlement" client counseling model (re: impact of settlement on government benefits, liens / subrogation, structured settlements and the taxation of damages) has received national recognition and is designed to protect clients as well as help lawyers avoid "failure to inform" professional liability claims. Matt serves as the special master and / or administrator of settlement funds throughout the country. His role in numerous high profile church-related sexual abuse and civil rights settlements (including the historic Cincinnati police brutality / racial profiling settlement) led to his selection by Lawyers Weekly as 1 of 5 "Lawyers of the Year" in Ohio for 2003. He was nominated by his peers and selected as an Ohio Super Lawyer – Rising Star in 2005. His work was featured in the LA Times in January of 2005.