Matthew S. Kahn

Matthew S. Kahn is a senior associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He practices in the firm's Litigation Department, and he is a member of the Securities Litigation Group, the Class Actions Group, and the Electronic Discovery and Information Law Group.

Mr. Kahn’s practice focuses on securities and derivative litigation, consumer and wage-and-hour class action defense, and information law.  He has experience at all phases of trial court litigation and arbitration, including arguing and winning dispositive and discovery motions, managing complex discovery (including electronic discovery), and litigating both bench and jury trials and arbitrations.  Mr. Kahn has successfully represented clients throughout the country in complex cases in federal and state court, involving claims, among others, under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; breach of fiduciary duties and insider trading under Delaware, California and New York law; California's Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act; and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.  Mr. Kahn also has significant experience in the prosecution and defense of commercial contracts and business tort actions.  In addition, Mr. Kahn has extensive expertise regarding complex information law matters in numerous federal and state jurisdictions.

Mr. Kahn clerked for the Honorable Mary L. Cooper, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, from 2003 to 2004.  Mr. Kahn received his law degree, with honors, from Stanford Law School in 2003. He received his B.A. in political science with honors, from Swarthmore College in 1999, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Kahn serves on Gibson Dunn's Hiring Committee and Bay Area Pro Bono Committee and is on the Boards of Directors of the Public Interest and Social Justice Law Board at Santa Clara University School of Law, which supports public interest and social justice legal work, and Parallel Exit, a not-for-profit theater company.  Mr. Kahn is an active provider of pro bono legal services, including representation of Tipping Point Community, on whose Leadership Council Mr. Kahn also serves.  In 2009, Mr. Kahn won an appeal against the German government on behalf of a Holocaust survivor who had been denied pension benefits.  In 2008, Mr. Kahn was honored for his pro bono efforts on behalf of victims of domestic violence when he was given the Above and Beyond Award by Sanctuary for Families, the largest nonprofit in New York State dedicated exclusively to serving domestic violence victims and their children.

Mr. Kahn is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York.  He is a member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Kahn’s recent publications include:

• “The Perils of Collecting Information at the Register”, Article, Sept. 8, 2011
• "2010 Year-End Electronic Discovery and Information Law Update", Client Alert, Jan. 13, 2011
• "2010 Year-End Securities Litigation Update", Client Alert, Jan. 11, 2011
• “2010 Mid-Year Report on Electronic Discovery and Information Law”, Podcast, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists, Sept. 9, 2010
• "2010 Mid-Year Report on Electronic Discovery and Information Law", Article, July 22, 2010
• "2010 Mid-Year Electronic Discovery and Information Law Update", Client Alert, July 13, 2010
• "Considering Coupons", Article, May 27, 2009
• "Supreme Court of California Exempts Life Insurance Products from Scope of California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act", Client Alert, Apr. 27, 2009
• "Offensive E-Discovery Depositions: Is There a Defense?" Article, Nov. 1, 2007
• "Private Rights of Action and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002", Article, Apr. 17, 2006