Attorney

Penn State University

• Member & Past-President, Board of Directors, The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association
• Member & Past-President, Board of Directors, The Penn State Law Alumni Association
• Member, Penn State Alumni Association Alumni Counsel (three terms)
• Member, Executive Board of the Executive Board of the Penn State Alumni Association

American Bar Association

• Co-Chair, American Bar Association (ABA), Criminal Justice Section Cyber Crime Committee
• Appointed Member, American Bar Association (ABA), Cybersecurity Legal Task Force
• Special Advisor/Liaison to the American Bar Association (ABA), Criminal Justice Section Counsel

Maryland State Bar Association

• Co-Chair, Maryland State Bar Association, Cybersecurity Legal Task Force
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association, CLE & Publications Committee
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association, Special Committee on Voir Dire

Baltimore Area Non-Profits

• Member, Board of Directors, and Acting General Counsel, Clarence H. "Du" Burns Memorial Fund, Inc.
• Past-Member, Board of Directors, Civic Works, Inc.

Bar Associations

• Maryland State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Washington D.C. Bar Association
• Member, Baltimore County Bar Association

Law Clubs

• Member, J. Dudley Digges Inn of Court

• Panelist/Speaker, American Bar Association’s (ABA) UN Convention on Cybercrime Webinar – February 13, 2025
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2024
• Presenter, Maryland State Bar Association – MSBA "Hot Tips in Workers’ Compensation -Data Breach 101.”  MSBA event's page here: https://lnkd.in/d5wCqwHC – May 9, 2024
• Quoted, The Maryland Daily Record, “Does your law firm need a data quality specialist? –  https://thedailyrecord.com/2023/08/09/does-your-law-firm-need-a-data-quality-specialist/  - August 9, 2023
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2023 
• Speaker, ABA The JustPod Podcast, Geofence Warrants and Their Use by Law Enforcement – https://adcg-on-privacy-and cybersecurity.simplecast.com/episodes/83-geofence-warrants-and-january-6-constitutional-and-privacy-issues?t=0m0s – December 16, 2022 
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2022 
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2021 
• Presenter, 2022 Advanced Business Law Institute:  Update on Cyber Crime and Regulation of Personal Identifiable Information  —  April 2022
• Presenter, MSBA Solo & Small Firm Summit, Run your Practice Cybersecurity Basics – What Solo and Small Firms Need to Know – March 3, 2022
• Speaker, ABA The JustPod Podcast, Cybercrime Law: A Call for Uniformity – October 2021 
• Speaker, ABA The JustPod Podcast, January 6th: Cybercrimes- February 2021
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2020
• Quoted in, “Coronavirus may trigger ‘force majeure’ clauses in contacts” – The Daily Record –  https://thedailyrecord.com/welcome-ad/?retUrl=/2020/03/13/coronavirus-force-majeure-contracts/ – April 14, 2020
• Presenter, Maryland GFOA Fall Conference: Cybercrime Ransomware – October 2019 
• Quoted in, “Why NY’s Criminal Discovery Reforms Aren’t a Boon to E-Discovery” – Law.com – July 31, 2019
• Presenter, MSBA’s Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2020
• Presenter, Bar Association of Baltimore City’s Business Litigation Committee: ESI Roundtable – May 2019 
• Quoted in, “Local Attorneys Wait to see Full Scope of Pugh’s Legal Woes” – the Maryland Daily Record – April 2019 
• Presenter, “CFMA Maryland Chapter Seminar: White Collar Crime and Fraud” – February 2019 
• Quoted in, “Sensitive Personal and Business Data Make Law Firms Attractive to Hackers” – the Maryland Daily Record – February 2019
• Quoted in, “How Lawyers Can Help Business Before – and After – Disasters Strike” – the Maryland Daily Record – December 2018 
• Presenter, Iowa State Bar’s 2018 eCommerce and Intellectual Property Law Seminar on The CLOUD Act – November 2018 
• Co-Host, 2018 Penn State Alumni Association Volunteer Awards Dinner – October 2018
• Quoted in, “Electronic Data Stored Abroad Now Subject to Federal Seizure” – American Bar Association – August 2018
• Presenter, Hon. Anselm Sodaro Judicial Civility Award – June 2018 
• Speaker, Penn State Law Class of 2018 Commencement – May 2018
• Featured In, “Matthew A.S. Esworthy: Bite-sized cybersecurity” – The Daily Record – April 2018 
• Panelist, CFMA Seminar on Construction & Cyber Resiliency: What You Need to Know & What You Need to Do – at RCM&D in Towson, Maryland – March 1, 2018
• Quoted, “ABA Cybersecurity Checklist to Help Businesses Vet outside Vendors” – The Daily Record – June 2017
• Quoted, “Penn State Law Gets Its Own Alumni Society” Penn State Alumni Insider – June 2017 
• Speaker, Penn State Law Class of 2017 Commencement – May 2017 
• Featured In, “Bowie & Jensen Expands Cybersecurity Practice with New Partner” – The Daily Record – May 2017
• Quoted, “Inaccurate leads from IP addresses prompt police to serve warrants on innocent people,” ABA Journal – May 2017
• Quoted, “Alumni Council Charters Two New Groups,” Penn State Alumni Association’s Alumni Insider – May 2017 
• Authored, “Putting Data Security to the Test,” The Daily Record – April 2016
• Co-authored, “Cases Without Borders – the Challenge of International Cybercrime Investigations,” ABA Criminal Justice Magazine – Winter 2016 
• Speaker, Penn State Law Class of 2016 Commencement – May 2016
• Co-authored, “Will the Court Define ‘Actual Damages’ in the OPM Cyber-Attack Lawsuit?” ABA Litigation Section’s Criminal Litigation Newsletter – September 2015
• Quoted, “Ashley Madison Hack May Yield a Crop of Reluctant Plaintiffs,” Progressivelawpractice.com – September 2015 
• Quoted, “AFGE lawsuit seeks relief for victims of OPM data breach,” Federal News Radio – June 2015 
• Speaker, Penn State Law Class of 2015 Commencement – May 2015 
• Quoted, “Cybercrime,” Washington Lawyer – May 2015
• Quoted, “Law firms victims of computer hackers” (translation from Spanish), DirigentesDigital.com – April 2015 
• Quoted, “Should Businesses Negotiate to Recover Stolen Data?” Legal Tech News – April 2015 
• Quoted, “$10 Million Settlement in Target Data Breach Gets Preliminary Approval,” The New York Times – March 2015
• Quoted, “Targeting Law Firms,” The Daily Record – March 2015 
• Panelist, “Cybercrimes: The Perfect Crime and Local Governments are Not Immune,” Annual International Municipal Lawyers Association Conference – September 2014
• Speaker, Penn State Dickinson School of Law Class of 2014 Commencement – May 2014 
• Moderator and panelist, “Cyber Attacks: The Perfect Crime?  A Lawyer’s Guide to the World of Cybersecurity,” ABA’s Criminal Justice Section program – February 2014 
• Co-authored, “Glitches Within the CFAA’s ‘Exceeds Authorized Access’ Language,” ABA Litigation Section’s Criminal Litigation Newsletter – October 2013
• Panelist, “Why Cybercrime Has Become the Perfect Crime,” Government Security Conference & Expo – May 2013
• Panelist, “Anatomy of a Trial,” ABA’s Litigation Section Annual Conference – May 2013
• Co-authored, “Cybercrime Task Force” chapter, ABA’s The State of Criminal Justice –2012 and 2013 editions
• Authored, “Pitfalls of Predictive Coding,” Federal Litigation Section of the Federal Bar Association’s SideBAR – January 2013
• Co-authored, “E-Discovery Task Force” chapter, ABA’s The State of Criminal Justice – 2012 
• Moderator, “Cost Effective Approaches to Dealing with ESI” panel discussion, ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Spring Conference – Spring 2012
• Co-authored, “The ESI Tsunami: A Comprehensive Discussion about Electronically Stored Information in Government Investigations and Criminal Cases,” ABA’s Criminal Justice Magazine – Spring 2012 
• Speaker, “Rule of Law in Cyber Conflict & Cybercrime,” Government Security Conference & Expo – April 2012
• Faculty member, “The Digital Age Meets the Constitution: Implications of United States v. Jones,” Bloomberg BNA webinar – February 2012
• Moderator, “A Comprehensive View of Where Cyber Crime is Heading in 2012” panel discussion, ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Meeting – February 2012
• Moderator, “The ESI Tsunami:  A Comprehensive Discussion about Electronically Stored Information in Criminal Cases,” ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Second Annual Prescription for Criminal Justice Forensics – June 2011
• Authored, “Notaries in the Digital Era,” LawDragon.com and The Daily Record – 2010

Matt has achieved favorable results in a number of high profile civil cases, including:

• Defended a large international auto manufacture in Federal and State Courts;
• Defended a large multi-state RV business in Federal and State Courts;
• Recouped losses on behalf of a large Baltimore business who experienced significant financial losses in excess of one-million dollars as a result of a cyber attack;
• Defended and represented over 30 defendants in a multi-year complex trade secret, non-competes with counterclaims for wages and earned stock compensation;
• Defended a Fortune 500 corporation in a federal eminent domain lawsuit involving the installation of gas pipelines under the purview of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
• Defended internationally-renowned hip-hop recording artists, producers and record labels in multi-year - multi-million dollar - civil conspiracy/intentional tort lawsuit;
• Represented a large casino who sought to enforce non-compete and non-solicitation agreements of former employees and prohibit key competitors from using sensitive trade secret information;
• Defended a personal-representative and trustee in a multi-year complex multi-million dollar lawsuit;
• Defended a large commercial building owner in a regulatory zoning lawsuit (vacant building receivership) brought by Baltimore City;
• Defended a firearms designer in a commercial lawsuit;
• Defended a prominent Baltimore law firm in a multi-million dollar defamation/invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by a public official;
• Pursued claims against Baltimore County and Board of Education for inaction involving repeated cyber-bullying incidents;
• Represented minority shareholders of a Fortune 500 company in a complex shareholder dispute.

Matt has also defended individuals and businesses targeted for criminal prosecution by federal and state authorities, including:

• Defended a prominent Baltimore businessman against federal antitrust (bid rigging) charges;
• Defended a Washington D.C. construction company against federal criminal conspiracy and fraud charges;
• Defended a prominent Israeli businessman against federal tax fraud charges;
• Defended a Virginia based home construction business against federal bank and mortgage fraud charges;
• Defended an international businessman for financial crimes against the U.S. State Department committed during the war in Afghanistan;
• Defended numerous federal and state cybercrime prosecutions;
• Defended and represented targets in election law fraud prosecutions;
• Defended small business owners for Medicare and Medicaid fraud claims;
• Represented numerous businesses in complying with Federal & State subpoenas in a wide variety of cases.