Hecker Fink LLP
United States
Lawyers
Matthew Craig
- Phone(212) 763-0883
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Appellate Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Education; Employment, Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct; Investigations and Crisis Management; Public Interest; Trials
Position
Partner
Career
Matthew J. Craig litigates in courts across the country. Matthew leverages his broad trial and appellate experience—including in contract, constitutional law, copyright, defamation and anti-SLAPP, RICO, and Titles VI, VII, and IX—to serve a diverse set of clients. These range from large tech companies to nonprofits, from major universities to artists and other celebrities. Clients often call on Matthew when they want to push the law in new directions or bring a creative lens to a difficult set of facts, and he specializes in cases with sensitive political or media components.
Matthew has used his unique combination of skills to help build the firm’s public interest practice. He is currently helping to lead a challenge to immigration enforcement efforts in Southern California, Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem, and secured a preliminary injunction upholding the right to consult counsel for detained individuals. Matthew represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault and defamation suits, winning two groundbreaking jury verdicts totaling $88 million in damages. He has long served as counsel to the Federal Defenders of New York in Sixth Amendment litigation against the Bureau of Prisons—the first civil lawsuit brought by a federal defender organization in history. And he prevailed on an anti-SLAPP motion against X Corp. in a case seeking to suppress reporting about hate speech on the X platform. After obtaining dismissal of all of X Corp.’s claims, The American Lawyer named Matthew and John Quinn “Litigators of the Week.”