Matthew Sitzer is a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP and the co-chair of the firm’s Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation practice group. He works nationally in both state and federal court on behalf of national insurers and their subsidiaries.
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Profile
Position
Co-Chair, Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation
Career
Over more than 25 years of practice, Matt has earned a reputation as a tenacious and experienced trial lawyer singularly focused on helping his clients meet or exceed their litigation objectives. Along with his common-sense approach to business litigation, Matt has a unique ability to boil down even the most complicated commercial disputes into their most critical and understandable subparts; this, in turn, has helped him achieve highly favorable results for his clients before courts, arbitration panels and mediators throughout the United States and Canada.
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Key clients
- AIG Insurance
- Resolute Management Inc.
Work highlights
Represented an insurer in a declaratory judgement action filed against Griffith Foods International, Inc.

