Matthew Grabell offers legal counsel to employers on a wide range of employment and employee benefits matters, with an emphasis on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). He has extensive experience defending employers throughout all stages of ERISA-related litigation, including cases involving breach of fiduciary duty, prohibited transactions, and wrongful denial of benefits.
Matthew has also represented both employers and their benefit plans in individual ERISA claims, class actions, and cases brought by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). More broadly, he has litigated labor disputes for clients in courts around the country, as well as in several federal appellate courts.
Credentials
Education
- DePaul University, B.A., 2010, magna cum laude
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 2013, magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Clerkships
- HonorableRonald A. Guzman, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois