For the first decade of Matt Anderson’s career as a litigator he collaborated with Bob Reis in representing lawyers, doctors, executives, corporations, civic organizations and regular citizens in civil litigation throughout Vermont. These cases were mostly concentrated in the areas of professional malpractice, motor vehicle, serious personal injury, toxic torts, insurance coverage, premises liability and commercial litigation. During that time, Matt spent thousands of hours researching the law and drafting legal memoranda. He also served as second chair in the majority of the firm’s civil jury trials. Matt also authored numerous successful Vermont Supreme Court briefs, most recently on behalf of an owner of polluted property in the landmark toxic tort case of State v. Howe Cleaners, Inc., 2010 VT 70 (Aug. 6, 2010).

In addition, in order to further develop his courtroom skills, Matt followed in Bob Reis’s footsteps by accepting criminal defense contracts from the Vermont Defender General. During those four years in the early 2000s he spent thousands of hours in courtrooms and successfully litigated over a hundred criminal cases. He continues to selectively accept new private clients facing criminal charges, and appointments in serious federal criminal cases, as rules requiring that every civil case go through mediation have dramatically reduced the frequency of civil trials. Matt assumed leadership of the firm’s insurance and civil litigation practices with Bob Reis’s untimely passing in 2011.

Matt is a proud third generation alumnus of the Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Rutland. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Vermont in 1997. While at UVM he was a member of the school's nationally ranked intercollegiate debate team and won a few large debate tournaments. After college he worked for Sun Life Financial in Boston, MA assisting stockbrokers with securities transactions for one year before attending the nation's oldest law school, the College of William and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law in historic Williamsburg, Virginia. While there, Matt served as a staff member on the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal and accepted an internship in the chambers of the Honorable Francis Conrad, Federal Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Vermont. Shortly after earning his Juris Doctor degree, Matt gained admission to both the Vermont and New York bars, as he flirted, for a time, with the idea of practicing law in New York City.

Matt is a member of the Rutland County and Vermont Bar Associations. He is a former trustee for Rutland Industries, a local manufacturing non-profit that employs individuals of varying capabilities, and Rutland ARC, an organization that serves individuals with developmental challenges. Matt is a member of Grace Congregational Church (UCC), the Vermont and Albany Saint Andrews Societies, and the Rutland Italian-American Club, where he is the captain of one of the Club's powerhouse bocce teams. Matt makes time to occasionally accept partial pro-bono appointments from the Rutland and Addison county family courts in child abuse and neglect cases. Loving the outdoors, Matt lives in a rural part of the small town of Pittsford with his wife and their young daughter.