Brian R. Matsui

Brian R. Matsui is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office in the Appellate Practice Group of the Litigation Department. Mr. Matsui has wide-ranging experience in appellate litigation, and his practice primarily includes the representation of clients in appellate litigation in both federal and state courts. Mr. Matsui has filed numerous briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States, federal circuit courts, state supreme courts, and state appellate courts. Additionally, he has represented clients in federal district and state trial courts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations by providing his appellate expertise to case strategy and dispositive motions involving complex issues of law. Among other issues, Mr. Matsui has been a primary author of briefs addressing questions of federal preemption of the National Bank Act and Federal Home Loan Bank Act in the Supreme Court of the United States, federal courts of appeals, and state supreme courts; questions related to patent prosecutions in the Supreme Court of the United States; and questions concerning the Freedom of Information Act for government contract cases in federal district court. He also has substantial experience in cases involving the negative implications of the Commerce Clause, procedural and substantive due process, and the Takings Clause. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Matsui clerked for the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Hon. Pamela Ann Rymer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Hon. David F. Levi of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Mr. Matsui is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he graduated with distinction and was elected Order of the Coif. He served as Managing Editor of Volume 51 of the Stanford Law Review. He received his A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University. Mr. Matsui is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and California.