Matthew R. Wilson is an associate attorney with the firm.

Mr. Wilson graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Philosophy from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Before joining Meyer & Associates, Mr. Wilson spent four years with the international law firm Jones Day, and two years prior to that with Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP. During those six years, he defended many of the world's largest corporations in class actions, wage and hour collective actions, and a wide variety of other types of complex civil litigation throughout the country. While at Jones Day, he acted as lead counsel in a contract dispute that resulted in a $1.6 million settlement for his client. Bunge North America (East) L.L.C. v. Ohio Fresh Eggs, L.L.C., No. C2-05-905 (S.D. Ohio). In a case involving the electric power industry, Mr. Wilson led the massive discovery effort in a case in which his client received a trial verdict of $123 million. Tractebel Energy Marketing, Inc. v. AEP Power Marketing, Inc., and Ohio Power Co. v. Tractebel Energy Marketing, Inc., 2005 WL 1863853 (S.D.N.Y. 2005).

At Meyer and Associates, Mr. Wilson focuses on prosecuting the firm’s consumer class action cases.

In addition to Mr. Wilson's complex civil litigation practice, his pro bono services have included the representation of indigent criminal defendants in Sixth Circuit appeals in Criminal Justice Act cases, including one recent case in which the Sixth Circuit vacated the criminal sentence of Mr. Wilson’s indigent client on appeal. United States v. Boards, 202 Fed. Appx. 869 (6th Cir. 2006). He is also an Interfaith Legal Services volunteer, where he assists low-income clients with all manner of legal difficulties. He currently serves as co-chair of the Consumer Law committee of the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Wilson is admitted to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the Central District of Illinois, as well as the Supreme Court of Ohio and all lower Ohio courts.