Practice areas: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Appellate; view more
Licensed in Colorado since: 2011
Education: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Languages spoken: English, French
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2020 - 2021 Call today:
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Megan Matthews is an attorney with Denver Trial Lawyers in Denver, Colorado. She has resolved over $100 million in claims through jury verdicts or settlements to date, including through the Porter Hospital litigation involving 276 plaintiffs, for which she received CTLA's prestigious "Case of the Year" award. A top-ranked trial lawyer with over 15 years of total legal experience, Ms. Matthews provides unmatched counsel and support to clients throughout her region and all across the country who have legal needs involving any of the following:
· Medical malpractice
· Car collisions
· Bad faith insurance
· Wrongful death
· Premises liability
· Appeals
In addition to being an experienced litigator and trial attorney, Ms. Matthews specializes in appeals and teaches appellate law. She has argued more than a dozen appeals before the Colorado Supreme Court and in the Colorado U.S. District Court. Along with handling plaintiff personal injury claims, Ms. Matthews has handled hundreds of disability claims before the Social Security Administration. She has extensive experience in handling cases involving human rights and international law, including maritime piracy. She has also served as a consultant in a variety of high-profile international cases involving international criminal tribunals as well as international sustainable development projects.
A leader in her field, Ms. Matthews currently serves on the adjunct legal faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and she also coaches the school's award-winning Jessup International Moot Court Team. She also served as the managing editor of the journal, "Eyes on the International Criminal Court," sponsored by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations.
Ms. Matthews has also published several articles and conducted numerous lectures and seminars across her region on a variety of legal topics. Honored for her remarkable professionalism, she has earned consistent recognition from her peers as being among the top 5% of lawyers in her region, and she has received many testimonials and referrals from her satisfied clients.
She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and she is currently the Vice-President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. She is also a member of the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, as well as at The American Society of International Law, among her other professional affiliations.
Ms. Matthews received her Certificate of Completion in Faculte des Lettres, French, from the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) in 2001, and she graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado at Denver with a degree in French. She then attended the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctor.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Appellate, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Insurance Coverage, InternationalFocus areas
Appeals, Bad Faith Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Wrongful Death
- 40% Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff
- 20% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 10% Appellate
- 10% Civil Litigation: Plaintiff
- 10% Insurance Coverage
- 10% International
First Admitted: 2011, Colorado
Professional Webpage: https://www.denvertriallawyers.com/attorneys/megan-matthews/
- I developed an in-firm training program for new attorneys and became the head trainer at my firm, 2018
- $3 million medical malpractice settlement, 2024
- 8-figure settlement for a 276 plaintiff mass tort medical malpractice case, resulting in winning CTLA's Case of the Year award., 2022
- $250,000 was obtained for an automobile collision with only $37,000 in past billing. I sent a one week time-limited demand for policy limits with a surgical estimate and the car insurance company promptly tendered, 2019
- $275,000 in third party and first party settlements obtained after the first party carrier initially refused to accept the lumbar spine surgery. The client's total medical bills were $90,000 and she had very serious pre-existing issues, such that causation would be nearly impossible to win if we went to trial, 2018
- $180,000 settlement was obtained for a severe collision where the client refused to treat beyond her initial hospital stay. Only $45,000 in medical bills, 2018
- $250,000 was obtained for an automobile collision with only $13,000 in past billing. I sent a one-week time-limited demand for policy limits with a surgical estimate and the car insurance company promptly tendered, 2018
- I represent 150+ injured plaintiffs who received surgical site infections from Denver's Porter Adventist Hospital's sterilization breaches, which were revealed by the department of health in April of 2018. The department of health found 129 incidents of visible bioburden in 2017 alone, including bone, blood, dead bugs, etc. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/16/porter-hospital-infections-surgical-sterilization-lawsuit/, 2019
- United States District Court, District of Colorado - Admission, 2013
- Certificate in International Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2011
- Since 2011, I have worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law. I work to educate young students on how to effectively perform oral arguments, conduct legal research, and write legal briefs. I donate the money I earn back to the students due to the fact that nearly all of their travel funding and moot court team funding has been eliminated due to a proliferation of moot court/mock trial teams, 2011
- Jessup International Moot Court Team has earned top awards at both the regional and international levels of the competition, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- University of Colorado with honors
- Managing Editor for a peer-reviewed legal journal for the Council for American Students in International Negotiations, Eyes on the International Criminal Court, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- By now it is common knowledge that the United States employs weaponized unmanned drones in its conflict with al Qaeda. Predator drones, equipped with Hellfire Missiles, were first deployed shortly after September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to target al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan. However, the law that governs the conflict is murky at best, and there is little consensus among the legal experts on many relevant legal issues. This article is designed to lay out the basic framework of the law and highlight the major areas of contention, providing the foundation for understanding the intricacies and nuances discussed by the eminent publicists writing in this edition of the Denver Journal of International Law & Policy. To explain the laws governing the use of force, applied in a modern context, this article first briefly describes in Section II the historical context in which the law surrounding the use of force developed. Then, Section III explains the basic legal paradigms that apply to analysis concerning the legality of drones as weapons of war, including human rights, self-defense, the law of armed conflict, and international humanitarian law (IHL). A brief examination of terrorism and the background history relating to difficulties in defining terrorism follows in Section IV. Section V examines the different approaches to the jus ad Bellum analysis, which is the first step in determining the legality of the use of force. Finally, Section VI lays out the jus in Bello assessment that governs how a State may use force when carrying out a specific campaign, Co-Author, Clarifying the Law Relating to Unmanned Drones and the Use of Force: The Relationships Between Human Rights, Self-Defense, Armed Conflict, and International Humanitarian Law, 39 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 661 (2011), Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2011
- The Volta Basin is a West African watercourse encompassing six riparian states, some of the most impoverished nations in the world. The basin region has recently been plagued with devastating parasitic diseases, floods, droughts, and water shortages. This paper analyzes the development of the international legal regime relating to the Volta watercourse. Specifically, it treats the recently ratified Volta Convention and analyzes its strengths and shortcomings in comparison to the United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigable Uses of International Watercourses. Then, it argues that the Volta Convention’s current obligations are insufficient to combat the impending natural disasters associated with global climate change, Author, The Volta Convention: An Effective Tool for Transboundary Water Resource Management in an Era of Impending Climate Change and Devastating Natural Disasters? 41 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 273 (2013), Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, 2013
- CTLA Case of the Year Award for Porter Hospital case involving 276 plaintiffs in a consolidated medical malpractice case, litigated as a traditional case and not with mass tort MDL rules applied. , 2023
- injured individuals
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2020 - 2021
