Matthew R. Wilson is a principal with the firm.

Mr. Wilson graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Philosophy from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Before joining Meyer Wilson, Mr. Wilson spent four years with the international law firm Jones Day, and two years prior to that with Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP. During those six years, he defended many of the world's largest corporations in class actions, wage and hour collective actions, and a wide variety of other types of complex civil litigation.

At Meyer Wilson, Mr. Wilson prosecutes the firm's class action cases. He serves as counsel for certified and putative classes in cases pending throughout the country involving defective products, privacy of medical information, violations of the federal telephone consumer protection statute, mortgage problems, securities fraud, and deceptive advertising.

In addition to Mr. Wilson's complex civil litigation practice, his pro bono services have included the representation of indigent criminal defendants in Sixth Circuit appeals in Criminal Justice Act cases, including a case in which the Sixth Circuit vacated the criminal sentence of Mr. Wilson's indigent client on appeal. United States v. Boards, 202 Fed. Appx. 869 (6th Cir. 2006). He has also been an Interfaith Legal Services volunteer, where he has assisted low-income clients with all manner of legal difficulties.

Since 2007, he has served as co-chair of the Class Action committee of the Central Ohio Association for Justice.  He has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer Rising Star.

Mr. Wilson is admitted to the Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois, as well as the Supreme Court of Ohio and all lower Ohio courts.