Matthew J. Gluck

MATTHEW J. GLUCK

Mr. Gluck joined the Firm in 2002 as an associate in the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on contracts and business torts, trusts, legal malpractice, insurance coverage, and other business litigation. Recent trial work includes second chair in a nine-day trial in Napa County state court in 2007, and first chair in a six-day arbitration in San Francisco in 2008. From 2003 through 2008, Mr. Gluck was part of the trial team in Robertson v. Princeton University a case that obtained a landmark $100 million recovery from Princeton for misuse of Robertson Foundation funds devoted to support of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

President-Elect, Bar Association of San Francisco Barristers Club, 2010-2011. The Barristers Club is a division of BASF devoted to serving its approximately 3,200 members who are lawyers in their first 10 years of practice, law students, and other legal professionals.
Director, Bar Association of San Francisco Barristers Club, 2009-2011.
President, Up On Top After School Program, 2008-present. Up On Top is a non-profit organization providing free after school programs and low-cost summer programs for approximately 100 children, from kindergarteners through third graders, in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Western Addition districts.
Member, San Francisco Bar Association's Mock Trial Team Committee, 2008-present. The Mock Trial Committee facilitates annual mock trial programs at several San Francisco public high schools, culminating each February in a tournament conducted at the San Francisco Superior Courthouse. In 2010, the San Francisco champions were runners-up in the California statewide competition.

EDUCATION

Mr. Gluck received his B.A. degree in Philosophy from Cornell University, and his J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, he spent a semester as an extern in the chambers of the Honorable Margaret M. Morrow, of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles. Mr. Gluck also spent a semester working for the Hastings Civil Justice Clinic, culminating in the representation of an indigent client at a two-day trial in San Francisco Superior Court, at which substantial relief was obtained for the client. He received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Real Property and Contracts.

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