Practice Summary
Matt Daley represents clients in a broad range of commercial & business issues, ranging from corporate formation, corporate governance, litigation, and corporate dissolution. Matt represents businesses of every size and from virtually every sector of the region’s economy: healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, real estate development & management, forestry, and the non-profit sector.
Matt has experience in contract disputes, business torts, intellectual property issues, real estate disputes, and corporate raiding claims (non-competition and non-solicitation). Matt’s practice includes bankruptcy & receivership litigation and intra-corporate litigation, including derivative/direct shareholder claims, dissenters’ rights claims, and claims asserting breach of fiduciary duty.
Matt also represents clients in Trust and Estate litigation. This work includes will contests, claims alleging breach of Trust, and claims seeking to challenge or reform Trust and Estate instruments.
Matt strives to understand his clients’ mission and core values so that he can help clients resolve business issues in the most efficient way possible. When litigation is necessary, Matt represents clients in a variety of State and Federal Courts (both at the trial and appellate levels) as well as in mediation and arbitration.
SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATION & EXPERIENCE
- Outside General Counsel, Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington, Empire Health Foundation & Family Impact Network
- Stryker Employment Co. v. Abbas, 2023 WL 2028701 (2023) (6th Cir. non-compete litigation in spinal implant industry).
- Teuscher v. CCB-NWC, LLC, 437 F.Supp.3d 849 (2020) (protecting sperm donor’s confidentiality)
- Spokane Slavic Baptist Church v. Trenchuk et al., 12 Wn.App.2d 1086 (2020) (enforcing Church’s real estate contract rights)
- Tamosaitis v. URS Corp., 2012 WL 4829818 (2012) (Nuclear industry whistleblower claim)
PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
- President, Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Washington, 2014-2015
- Past Board Member, Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington & Catholic Charities Foundation
- Past Board Chair, Catholic Housing Communities of Eastern Washington
Member, Washington Defense Trial Lawyers - Board President, Early Life Speech & Language of Spokane
