Matthew A. Hoffman

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Matt Hoffman is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of its Insurance and Reinsurance, Labor and Employment, Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort, and Class Actions Practice Groups.

Mr. Hoffman specializes in civil trials in both federal and state courts, with a principal focus on complex insurance and reinsurance disputes.  He has represented some of the world’s leading insurance companies in a wide variety of coverage litigation, and is currently acting as national coordinating counsel for a national insurer involving sexual abuse coverage claims.

Mr. Hoffman also has extensive experience in labor and employment cases, environmental and mass tort litigation, products liability, product recall, consumer fraud class actions, unfair competition, legal malpractice defense, and arbitration (both domestic and international).  His litigation experience includes work for companies in the insurance, food and beverage, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, education, telecommunications, health care, and utility industries.  Recently, Mr. Hoffman has handled a number of high profile sexual abuse and sexual harassment cases.

Mr. Hoffman has tried numerous civil jury and non-jury cases to successful conclusions in California and throughout the country, and has arbitrated disputes before the London Court of International Arbitration, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, and the American Arbitration Association.