Matt Girardi is an Associate with Bursor & Fisher, P.A. Matt focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and class actions, and has focused specifically on consumer class actions involving privacy violations, illegal gambling, financial misconduct, and false advertising. Matt was a Summer Associate with Bursor & Fisher prior to joining the firm.

Matt is admitted to the State Bar of New York, and is a member of the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Western District of Michigan, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Matt received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2020, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  During law school, Matt was the Commentary Editor for the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, and represented fledgling businesses with Columbia’s Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic.  In addition, Matt worked as an Honors Intern in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Matt graduated from Brown University in 2016 with a B.A. in Economics, and worked as a Paralegal Specialist at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Antitrust Division prior to law school.

Selected Class Settlements

  • Armstead v. VGW Malta Ltd. et al., Case No. 22-CI-00552 (Henderson Cnty. Ky. 2023) – final approval granted for $11.75 million class settlement involving allegedly deceptive and/or illegal gambling practices.
  • Edwards v. Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Case No. 22-cv-00562-TJM-CFH (N.D.N.Y. 2023) – final approval granted for $2.2 million class settlement to resolve claims that an upstate New York credit union was unlawfully charging overdraft fees on accounts with sufficient funds.
  • Fischer, et al. v. Instant Checkmate LLC, et al., No. 19-cv-04892 (N.d. Ill. 2024) – final approval granted for state-by-state non-reversionary cash settlements involving alleged violations of right of publicity statutes totaling in excess of $10.1 million.
  • Wyland v. Woopla, Inc., Civil Action No. 2023-CI-00356 (Henderson Cir. Ct. Ky. 2023) – final approval granted for $835,000 class settlement involving allegedly deceptive and/or illegal gambling practices.
  • Whiting v. Yellow Social Interactive Ltd., Civil Action No. 2023-CI-000358 (Henderson Cir. Ct. Ky. 2023) – final approval granted for $1.32 million class settlement involving allegedly deceptive and/or illegal gambling practices.