Moscone Emblidge & Sater LLP

Matt Yan has a broad and diverse background in all areas of civil litigation, including commercial and contract litigation, employment law, intellectual property and trade secrets, environmental and land use law, and civil rights and defamation. Matt has defended a local business in a trade-secret misappropriation and municipal contract lawsuit, defended a major international corporation against allegations of environmental groundwater contamination, represented a limited partner in an internal partnership dispute, and negotiated a settlement for a start-up technology company in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Matt’s experience also extends beyond traditional litigation.  He has conducted internal investigations of businesses for wrongful termination, harassment, and hostile work environment allegations. Matt has also successfully enforced multiple large litigation judgments against uncooperative, evasive, and hostile defendants.

Before joining Moscone Emblidge & Sater in 2010, Matt was a litigation associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. During law school, Matt represented indigent criminal defendants with both the San Francisco Public Defender and Boston University Criminal Defender Program. Matt has also won several Moot Court awards in both writing and oral advocacy. In 2007, Matt published a note in the Boston University Public Interest Law Journal entitled: “What’s In A Name”: Why the New Jersey Equal Protection Guarantee Requires Full Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, 17 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 179 (2007). In his spare time, Matt volunteers as a coach for the Balboa High School Mock Trial Team, which has reached the final round of county competition in two of the past four years.

Matt graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, and cum laude from the Boston University School of Law in 2008.  He is fluent in Cantonese.