Matthew Bryant

Matthew Bryant is an experienced trial and appellate attorney who focuses his practice on significant fiduciary and civil rights litigation matters.  He achieves the best outcomes for clients by understanding his client’s experience, building relationships, attention to detail and hard work.

He represents trustees, personal representatives and beneficiaries when there are disputes involving estates and trusts. His fiduciary litigation practice includes will contests, caveat proceedings, disputes over testamentary capacity, accounting disputes, power of attorney disputes and breaches of fiduciary duties.

Matthew also has been involved in numerous high-profile civil rights cases. He represents students harmed or injured at school and individuals whose rights were violated by illegal police conduct, including excessive force.

Matthew has an active criminal practice defending individuals charged with crimes or being investigated by law enforcement.  

Before joining the firm, Matthew clerked for the Honorable Kathryn Grill Graeff of the Court of Special Appeals, now the Appellate Court of Maryland, and the Honorable Michele D. Jaklitsch of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County.

Updated Oct 2025

• Successfully obtained a judgment at the conclusion of a bench trial against a former trustee for $757,070.04 based on the trustee’s failure to account for his use of trust property and successfully defended the judgment on appeal.
  
  
• Jury awarded $8,000,000.00 (reduced to the cap on non-economic damages) to a child victim who was sexually assaulted in a common area of a high-rise apartment building based on the failure of the apartment building to maintain a secure building.
  
  
• The Appellate Court of Maryland reversed client’s conspiracy conviction based on a violation of the Fourth Amendment arising from an illegal search of the defendant’s cellular phone.

• Appellate
• Plaintiff
• Private client

• Government and public policy

• JD - University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law - 1997
• AB - Kenyon College - 2001

• The Cole-Davidson American Inn of Court    
• Prince George’s County Bar Association    
• Maryland State Bar Association    
• Board of Directors for Maryland Volunteer Legal Services

• District of Columbia    
• Maryland    
• New Jersey    
• Pennsylvania    
• US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit    
• US District Court for the District of Columbia    
• US District Court for the District of Maryland    
• US District Court for the District of New Jersey