Matthew T. Nagel
Top rated Personal Injury attorney in St. Louis, Missouri
Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts
Practice areas: Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, Business & Corporate; view more
Licensed in Missouri since: 2007
Education: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2024 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2018 - 2021 
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120 South Central AveSuite 150
St. Louis, MO 63105 Phone: 314-725-1912 Email: Matthew T. Nagel Visit website
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Matthew Nagel is a partner at Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts. He fights to make the workplaces and roadways safer in Missouri and Illinois by representing the injured and helping businesses lay strong foundations. He specializes in plaintiff personal injury, employee worker's compensation claim, commercial litigation, business formation and consultation, Trademarks and Copyrights.
Matt graduated from Millstadt Consolidated School in 1996 and from Belleville West magna cum laude in 2000. Graduating from Knox College in 2004, Matt earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in International Relations while serving as a senior captain and four year starter for the Knox Prairie Fire soccer team.
He earned his law degree from Washington University School of Law in 2007, while serving as the Editor-In-Chief of the Manual of International Legal Citation and on the executive board of the Global Studies Law Review. As a Rule 13 student attorney, Matthew Nagel represented underprivileged women and children who were victims of domestic violence through the nationally ranked Washington University Civil Justice Clinic. In 2008, he earned his LLM in Intellectual Property from Washington University to further his practice in protecting clients’ copyrights and trademarks.
He has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Trial Attorney in Missouri and Illinois by a number of national organizations. The National Trial Lawyers Association named his a Top 25 Workers Compensation Trial Attorney in Missouri. He is also an AV Rated lawyer by Martingale Hubble, an award bestowed by a lawyer’s peers.
Now attorney Matthew Nagel uses his experience as a former insurance defense lawyer to help injured people and businesses across Missouri and Illinois navigate the legal system and protect what they have worked so hard to build. Matt also uses this experience in the classroom. He is an adjunct professor at Maryville University and Ranken Technical College.
Away from the Courtroom and the office, Matthew enjoys spending time coaching youth soccer. He volunteers with SPENSA and the St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Workers' Compensation: Claimant, Business/Corporate, Intellectual PropertyFirst Admitted: 2007, Missouri
Professional Webpage: http://www.bistatelaw.com/about-us-2/matthew-nagel/
- Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, 2011 - Present
- Sports Lawyers Association, 2009 - Present
- Illinois Supreme Court
- Missouri Bar, 2007
- Member, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 2007 - Present
- Missouri Supreme Court
- Member, American Bar Association, 2007 - Present
- Illinois Circuit Courts
- Missouri Appellate Courts
- United States District Court for Western District of Missouri
- Co-Chair of Executive Committee, Young Literati, St. Louis Public Library, 2007 – 2012
- Member, St. Louis Trial Lawyers Association, 2007 - Present
- Member, Missouri Bar Association
- Member, Sports & Entertainment Lawyers Association
- Missouri Circuit Courts
- United States District Court for Southern District of Illinois
- National Trial Lawyers Association, 2012 – Present
- Illinois Bar, 2008
- Member, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, 2012 - Present
- United States District Court for Eastern District of Missouri
- Member, Illinois State Bar Association, 2008 - Present
- Illinois Appellate Courts
- Rice Painting Company
- LLC Thermal Flow Technologies
- LLC 2200 Gravois Leasing
- LLC Natural Science
- LLC Evergreen Realty Investments
- Inc. Lawrence Florist, 2014
- LLC Office Supply Solutions
- LLC 314 Sports Management
- LLC Bridges for Education
- LLC DAT Contracting
- LLC Karpel Solutions
- Inc. Pro Clean Restorations
- LLC Strait Realty
- LLC Big Red Events Bayan Mall
- LLC Championship Catering
- Drafted complete set of contractual documents for pest control company dealing with private and governmental clientele, 2017
- Negotiated multiple franchise agreement formations and terminations for corporate clients, 2015
- Negotiated patent license with US Department of Energy for private client, 2016
- Drafted corporate licensing structure and administration of corporate licensing and distribution relationship for multiple companies, 2017
- Represented paint contractor in environmental hazard litigation against public school district, 2017
- Drafted competed business startup package for food service companies, including corporate formation, control documents, government licensing, and trademark registrations, 2017
- Managed all aspects of acquisition of a managed services IT company for another IT services company, 2016
- LLM in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2008
- St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) Founded, 1982
- Special Needs Soccer Association (SPENSA)
- Special Olympics, Volunteer, 2007 – Present
- Board Member, Jane Doe Advocacy Center, 2016 – Present
- Martindale Hubble - AV Preeminent Rated Attorney, AV Preeminent Rated Attorney, Martindale Hubble, 2024
- Top 25 Workers Compensation Attorney in Missouri, National Trial Lawyers Association, 2024
- Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Society , Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Society , Knox College, 2003
- Top 40 Under 40 Trial Attorney for Missouri, National Trial Lawyers Association, 2013
- Top 100 Trial Attorney in Missouri, National Trial Lawyers Association, 2024
- Community Service Chair, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Knox College
- Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy, Washington University School of Law
- Top 40 Under 40 Trial Attorney for Missouri, National Trial Lawyers Association, 2013
- Top 40 Lawyer Under 40 Trial Lawyers in Illinois, American Society of Legal Advocates, 2014
- Treasurer, International Law Society,Washington University School of Law, 2005 - 2006
- Washington University School of Law, LLM, Major: Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2008, 2008
- Washington University School of Law, JD, 2007
- Knox College, B.A., Major: International Relations, 2004
- Knox College, B.S., Major: Computer Science, Honors: Asplund Award in Computer Science, 2004
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Fontbonne University, Fall 2008 – Spring 2013
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- “The Legal Landscape of LGBT Discrimination in Missouri,” BOOM Magazine, April 2016
- Interviewed and quoted for "Slam Dunk", Missouri Lawyers Weekly, May 16, 2011, Vol. 25, No. 20
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Ranken University, Spring 2013 – Present
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Maryville University, Fall 2013 - Present
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Washington University School of Law, Fall 2009 - 2014
- CLE – “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sports Law But Were Afraid to Ask”, CLE Presentation, Presenter, USA&M, 2014
- CLE – “Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples.”, CLE Presentation, Presentor, Missouri Bar, 2016
- Double Deontology and the CCBE: Harmonizing the Double Trouble in Europe, Author, Double Deontology and the CCBE, Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2007
- Duck and Cover, STLSOUND Magazine, Issue 29, October 2008
- Chart Topping 101, STLSOUND Magazine, Issue 31, December 2008
- Double Deontology and the CCBE: Harmonizing the Double Trouble Europe, 6.2 WASH. U.GLOB. L. STUD. L. REV. 2004
- Staff Member, Global Studies Law Review, 2005 - 2006
- Executive Board, Global Studies Law Review, 2006 - 2007
- Editor in Chief, Manual of International Citation, 2006 - 2007
Office location for Matthew T. Nagel
120 South Central Ave
Suite 150
St. Louis, MO 63105
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2024
- Rising Stars: 2018 - 2021