Counsel
Matthew C. Sostrin
Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Environmental
Overview
Matt Sostrin is an experienced litigator and advisor whose wide-ranging practice is focused on environmental, toxic tort, wildfire, and product liability litigation. Matt also represents clients in complex commercial litigation, financial services litigation, and securities class actions.
Experience
Environmental, Toxic Tort, Wildfire, & Products Liability
- Defended cable provider in Maui, Hawaii against individual and class actions filed on behalf of tens of thousands of plaintiffs alleging that its cables contributed to causing the Lahaina fire.
- Defended engineering firm against individual and class actions filed on behalf of thousands of residents in Flint, Michigan alleging that the firm contributed to causing the Flint water crisis and exposing residents to lead.
- Defended sugarcane producer against class action challenging its pre-harvest sugarcane burning practices. All claims were voluntarily dismissed.
- Represented sugarcane producer in successful challenge to EPA’s retroactive imposition of “new source” boiler emission standards to already-operating boilers. U.S. Sugar Corp. v. EPA (D.C. Cir. 2024).
- Secured trial victory for natural gas utility in action brought by municipality alleging that byproducts from former manufactured gas plant migrated to and endangered city water mains. City of Evanston v. N. Ill. Gas Co. (N.D. Ill. 2019).
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, JD, summa cum laude
Articles Editor, University of Illinois Law Review - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, cum laude
Admissions
- Illinois
Courts
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- US District Court for the District of Colorado
- US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit