Matt represents plaintiffs in high-stakes litigation across the country, focusing on antitrust and other complex matters. Matt has assumed leadership roles on these cases and has achieved favorable results for his clients at trial, including a top 50 occupational injury verdict in the United States in 2023. Matt is also a key member of the team representing hospitals in their claims against pharmaceutical companies for the wrongful distribution and dispensation of opioids in Florida.
Before his career representing plaintiffs, Matt clerked in federal and state court. These clerkships sharpened the attention to detail and work ethic that define his practice today.
Matt graduated summa cum laude from William & Mary Law School, where he served as Symposium Editor of the William & Mary Law Review, President of the National Trial Team, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. Before law school, Matt served in the Mississippi Teacher Corps, a program that places teachers in Mississippi public schools experiencing teacher shortages. While in the Teacher Corps, Matt earned his M.A. from the University of Mississippi, where he received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. Matt graduated cum laude from Princeton University.
In his downtime, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife, Jessie, two daughters, and two Labrador retrievers.
Education
William & Mary Law School, J.D., summa cum laude
University of Mississippi, M.A.
Princeton University, B.A., cum laude
Law Clerk to the Honorable John A. Gibney Jr., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2020-2021
Law Clerk to the Honorable Mary Jane Hall and Honorable Jerrauld C. Jones, Norfolk Circuit Court, Fourth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, 2019-2020
Admissions
Virginia
Missouri
Maryland
District of Columbia
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
United States District Court, Western District of Virginia
United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas
United States District Court, District of Columbia
United States District Court, District of Maryland
Honors
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, DC (2024-25)
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, Missouri (2023)
Top 50 Occupational Injury Verdict in U.S. (2023)
Order of the Coif (2019)
Order of Barristers (2019)
Symposium Editor of the William & Mary Law Review (2018-2019)
President of the National Trial Team at William & Mary Law School (2018-2019)
Winner of the National Sports Law Student Writing Competition (2018)
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (2016)
Publications & Speaking Engagements
Matthew Strauser & Noah Chauvin, Student Employee Speech, 20 Va. Sports & Entertainment L.J. 171 (2020).
Matt Strauser, Let the Kids Play: How College Athletes Can Use California’s Prohibition on Noncompete Clauses to Circumvent the NCAA’s Year-in-Residence Rule, 27 Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports L.J. 1 (2020).
Matthew Strauser, Upon Further Review: Reconsidering Clarett and Player Access to the NFL, 29 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 247 (2018).
Fighting Surveillance Prices & Wages (Tech Justice Law Project – June 2025)
Membership
Virginia State Bar Antitrust and Consumer Protection Section Board