California license and practice

Matthew Lilly is an Active member of the State Bar of California (State Bar of California #218143). Verify the current individual Bar record at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/218143 before hiring an attorney.

Matthew Lilly is the Managing Partner of Finlayson Toffer Roosevelt & Lilly LLP in Irvine, where he practises commercial litigation across commercial lending, construction and recycling, consulting, insurance and retail, including contract and shareholder disputes, unfair competition, and real estate and construction litigation, in state and federal courts nationwide and in arbitration. He has appeared before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and regularly represents commercial lenders under the California Commercial Code. He joined the firm in 2010 after eight years at Gibson Dunn in Orange County. He earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 2001, where he was Chief Comments Editor of the UCLA Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif, and his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1995. He is admitted to practise in California and before all four California federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is a former chairman of The Raise Foundation Board, received the Deserving of Praise award in 2017, and served in the Orange County District Attorney Trial Attorney Partnership, where he single-chaired misdemeanor jury trials.

Matters this legal field covers

Commercial litigation legal work may cover contract and shareholder disputes, unfair competition, real estate and construction litigation, and commercial lending disputes.

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