About

Matthew C. Stone, Esquire, began his legal career in the late 1990s by volunteering with a governmental office of attorneys who handled legal matters on behalf of Riverside County in Southern California.  He continued to volunteer while he attended college at the University of California, Riverside, and that experience prompted Matt to attend law school at the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.  At Penn State Dickinson, Matt served as a Member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team and as the Executive Editor of the Penn State International Law Review, and was awarded The Richard Reeve Baxter Award as well as the CALI award for excellence in Products Liability.  While in law school, Matt interned with a Justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and worked as a Research Assistant for Professor and former Dean, Michael J. Navin, on Understanding Contracts, a legal text published in 2004 by LexisNexis. Before graduating, Matt also obtained legal experience at The Law Office of Bell, Orrock & Watase, Inc., in Riverside, California, and at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, LLP, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.After law school, Matt spent 6 years as an Associate attorney at the Philadelphia office of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, PC, a large insurance defense law firm, where he represented a variety of individual and corporate clients in litigation matters.  Matt gained invaluable insight into the strategies and tactics used by insurance companies when defending claims asserted by injured individuals, and now uses the knowledge gained through that experience to help individuals who have fallen victim to the negligent actions of others. Matt was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2008, and is admitted to practice in the State Courts in Pennsylvania as well as in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  He is also a member of the Delaware County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In the legal field, Matt is also a published author, having written for the Penn State International Law Review, Medical Trial Technique Quarterly, the American Bar Association’s Affiliate, and the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer.  Matt has also served as an Assistant Editor of both the American Bar Association’s Affiliate and Young Lawyer publications. In the past, Matt has served as a Presiding Judge in the Quaker Classic Mock Trial Invitational conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a Panelist on the American Bar Association’s Advisory Panel.  Matt is currently a member of the Brookhaven Borough Ordinance Committee, and serves as the Chairperson of the Brookhaven Borough Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights Tax Appeals Board. As a founding member of The Law Offices of Stone & Stone, LLC, Matt handles a variety of civil litigation matters for clients, including personal injury cases, mortgage foreclosure cases, car accident cases, contracts, real estate matters, landlord/tenant cases, premises liability matters, property tax assessment appeals, social security appeals, lemon law / warranty cases, and municipal law.

Practices Areas

Real Estate

Personal Injury

Foreclosure

Language

English

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