Matthew Sheynes
At FREED & WEISS, Matthew Sheynes represents plaintiffs in cases involving deceptive insurance claim reimbursement practices, defective products and calling card fraud. In addition, Matthew has significant experience with the drafting of business law and consumer fraud legislation through his previous work as a staff attorney at the Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau.
Matthew received his undergraduate degree in history and his Juris Doctorate from Tulane University in New Orleans, in May 1993 and May 1999, respectively. Between college and law school, he worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services and studied American social and urban history at the graduate school of the University of Illinois at Chicago. At Tulane Law School, Matthew was an active member of the Public Interest Law Foundation and completed a PILI Summer Law Internship at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago.
During and after law school, Matthew worked for various civic organizations in New Orleans and Chicago, such as the New Orleans-based Advocacy Center for the Elderly and Disabled. He completed a law clerkship in the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County where he worked predominantly on commercial law and consumer protection matters. Together with eminent jurists and scholars, Matthew co-authored a number of law articles on the complex subject of economic loss, or the Moorman Doctrine, published in the Matthew Bender Commercial Damages Reporter and the August 2001 and July 2002 editions of the Illinois Bar Journal; and a chapter on Louisiana civil law in a Comparative Law study, Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family (Prof. Vernon V. Palmer, ed., Cambridge U. Press, U.K. 2001). Matthew is fluent in Russian and Italian.
matt@freedweiss.com
t: 312 855 2616
f: 312 220 7777
Area of practice:
Litigation
Education:
Tulane University, B.A.
Tulane University, J.D.
Admissions:
Illinois
Northern District of Illinois
Member: Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association