David Matthews was selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America for 2017. His firm has focused on pharmaceutical drug and medical device law for more than 15 years. His firm aggressively represents victims of dangerous drugs and medical devices, a well as personal injury cases that include Truck and Auto Accidents and natural gas fracking lawsuits.
Board Certified in 1994 by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law, Mr. Matthews has taken more than 120 cases to jury verdicts. In Sept. 2014 he won a jury verdict for a Texas woman – in a case later settled – in a Dallas courtroom in a transvaginal mesh sling case. In March 2014 in Philadelphia, he won a jury verdict for a Wisconsin family in a Topamax birth defects case later settled for a confidential sum. In 2014 he also helped a Texas family win a jury verdict – on appeal, so no recoveries have been made by plaintiffs despite the verdict – in what his firm believes to be the first fracking verdict in the country won by plaintiffs.
Mr. Matthews has received the premier rating in 2015 from Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™. Martindale.com proclaims on its web site: “The Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ are an objective indicator of a lawyer’s high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations of lawyers by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the United States and Canada. . . .”
Mr. Matthews has been voted in 2015 one of the Top 100 National Trial Lawyers in Texas. The National Trial Lawyers web site reports: “The National Trial Lawyers is a professional organization composed of the premier trial lawyers from across the country who exemplify superior qualifications as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial lawyers. . . ”
Mr. Matthews has also been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer – a Thomson Reuters designation – from 2003-2004 and 2006-2015. Thomson Reuters’ SuperLawyers.com web site reports, “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.”
In 26 years of Best Lawyerslegal work, Mr. Matthews has helped injured people across the country attain some of the largest verdicts or settlements in pharmaceutical litigation against the makers of such drugs as Phen-Fen, Rezulin, Vioxx and Bextra-Celebrex. He worked 18 years as a partner in the oldest personal injury firm in Texas, the last eight as head of Matthews & Associates, with offices in Houston and New York City. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, New York, Mississippi and Pennsylvania, though he prosecutes cases nationwide.