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Matthew S. Krauss

​Matt Krauss is a partner at WMC and an experienced litigator who has represented clients successfully in complex commercial disputes before federal and state courts across the country. He recently obtained a $100 million settlement for two federal whistleblowers.

Matt has helped clients with business disputes in a variety of areas, including violations of the False Claims Act, denial of insurance coverage, fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract. Matt also has represented clients in internal and government investigations before multiple federal agencies. His representative matters include:

• Representing the relators in United States ex rel. Rigsby v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., No. 06-433 (S.D. Miss.), a False Claims Act case alleging that an insurer defrauded the federal government after Hurricane Katrina. The case involved multiple appeals to the Fifth Circuit and to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously for Matt’s clients in State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. United States ex rel. Rigsby, 137 S. Ct. 436 (2016). Matt managed the daily operation of the case, which settled for $100 million.
  
  
• Representing the State of Mississippi in a dozen cases involving defendants who fraudulently foisted their own financial liabilities onto a public relief program. Matt coordinated the daily management of the suits, which have recovered tens of millions of dollars for the State.
  
  
• Representing more than 1,100 New York and New Jersey home and business owners in agency adjudication and federal litigation to recover more than $44 million in federal flood insurance coverage fraudulently withheld by FEMA and government contractors after Hurricane Sandy. Matt discussed WMC’s work on At Central Jersey with Maggie Glynn.
  
  
• Representing the National Community Pharmacists Association and eight other pharmacy trade groups as amici curiae in Pharmaceutical Care Management Ass’n v. Wehbi, No. 18-2926 (8th Cir.), supporting the permissibility of North Dakota laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers from ERISA and Medicare preemption challenges. The Eighth Circuit ultimately upheld all thirteen challenged provisions against ERISA preemption and eight against Medicare preemption.
  
  
• Representing a television broadcasting company in a federal antitrust investigation, ultimately resolving with no penalty for Matt’s client.
  
  

Matt graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a Managing Editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Before joining Weisbrod Matteis & Copley, Matt was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP. He also completed a six-month secondment at the Neighborhood Legal Services Program, representing low-income DC residents at trial and in administrative hearings in a range of civil matters.

​(202) 751-2003 
mkrauss@wmclaw.com 
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Education

• J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude (2009)
  
  
• B.A., Swarthmore College, with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa (2006)
  
  

Judicial Clerkship
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• Hon. Patti B. Saris, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (2009–2010)

Bar Memberships

• District of Columbia
• Massachusetts

Publications
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• Axioms for Supplementing the Administrative Record, Bloomberg BNA Federal Contracts Report, 95 FCR 242, March 1, 2011 (coauthor)