About Matthew Mokwa
Matthew Mokwa concentrates his practice on products liability and mass tort litigation, as well as securities fraud and consumer class action cases. He is dedicated to delivering client-focused and compassionate legal services to the wrongly injured. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as an attorney in the private equity and venture capital industry, gaining insight into how corporations are valued and how unethical companies can misrepresent their financial health or the safety of their products. Attorney Mokwa earned his Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude from the Eller Business School at the University of Arizona, where he was selected by the faculty as the Outstanding Marketing Student and received the Award for Highest Academic Distinction at graduation.
He earned his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law as a Presidential Scholar and member of the Phi Delta Legal Honor Society. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. He is also a published author, and his article 'Enron, Sarbanes Oxley and the End of Earnings Management' (Texas Business Journal, Winter 2004) is a widely cited summary of securities fraud.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Maher Law Firm
These results are credited to The Maher Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
C. Steven Yerrid, the youngest of Florida's 11-lawyer 'Dream Team,' added racketeering and conspiracy charges that tripled the damages ceiling, helping the state secure what was then the largest civil settlement in American history against the tobacco industry.
A Broward County jury awarded $24 million to the widower of Alana DeMella, a seven-months-pregnant hotel guest killed when a drunk driver crashed into a pool cabana at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale in 2012.
A Florida jury awarded $10 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after a pharmacy dispensed more than ten times the prescribed dose of methadone.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas jury found Jeanes Hospital and Hillcrest Convalescent Home equally responsible for the pressure sores and infections that led to Joe Blango's death in 2008. It awarded $1 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The trial court molded the compensatory award to $1,029,722.30 and remitted the punitive awards to $500,000 and $1 million, leaving about $2.53 million.
An Orlando federal jury awarded Virginia Redding $2.5 million after finding that Coloplast's NovaSilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh was defectively designed and that the company had concealed known risks from her physician, in what was the first jury verdict against Coloplast for that specific device.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
