Mathew E. Flatow

Top rated Employment & Labor attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina

SeiferFlatow, PLLC
Mathew E. Flatow
SeiferFlatow, PLLC

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Business & Corporate, Workers' Compensation; view more

Licensed in North Carolina since: 2006

Education: Wake Forest University School of Law

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025 Selected to Rising Stars: 2012 - 2021

SeiferFlatow, PLLC

2319 Crescent Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28207 Phone: 704-512-0606 Email: Mathew E. Flatow Visit website

Details

In 2011, Mathew E. Flatow founded SeiferFlatow, PLLC along with partner Adam M. Seifer with the mission of helping individuals by combining a high level of customer service with aggressive advocacy.  After previously representing businesses, Mathew now uses his experience and knowledge to help individuals with claims against insurance companies and corporations in the fields of workers’ compensation, personal injury, employment law and general civil litigation.  Mathew was named to the North Carolina Rising Stars list as one of the top up-and-­coming attorneys in North Carolina for 2012.  Mathew was also named to the National Trial Lawyers’ list of the top 40 litigators in the State of North Carolina under the age of 40.

Practice areas

Employment & Labor: Employer, Business/Corporate, Workers' Compensation: Claimant, Employment & Labor: Employee, Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff

First Admitted: 2006, North Carolina

Professional Webpage: https://seiferflatowlaw.com/mathew-flatow-partner-at-seiferf...

Bar/Professional Activity:
  • North Carolina, 2006; U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina.
Verdicts/Settlements (Case Results):
  • Stukes v. Mizay Entertainment, INC On Saturday, February 16, 2011, Rapper Juaquin Malphurs aka Waka Flocka Flame was in Charlotte in order to have his stereo equipment worked on and/or installed at a retailer on Independence Boulevard at 2:00 in the afternoon .  Mr. Malphurs mingled with the general public and signed autographs as requested.  Mr. Malphurs was managed by Defendant Mizay who hired a security detail to protect Mr. Malphurs at public events.  The security detail was supervised by Defendant Mizay, who created and instilled various procedures and protocols on how the security detail was to act in various situations.  These procedures and protocols allowed the security detail to be armed at all times and to fire weapons as needed.   Plaintiff and his friends drove to meet Mr. Malphurs  As Plaintiff and his two friends got out of the vehicle, Plaintiff observed a member of Mr. Malphurs’s security detail brandishing a large handgun and started shooting his gun in the general direction of Plaintiff, without provocation.  As Plaintiff was retreating towards Independence Boulevard, this second member of the security detail fired two shots from his handgun in the general direction of Plaintiff.  One of the bullets fired by the members of the security team struck Plaintiff in the shoulder.  Defendant Mizay was found liable to Plaintiff as the employer of the security detail on the grounds that the negligent acts and/or omissions undertaken by the members of the security detail.  Defendant Mizay was further found liable for punitive damages.    After careful deliberation, a Mecklenburg County Superior Court Jury found Defendant Mizay liable in the amount of $501,000.00. Served as lead counsel on the case., 2012
  • Obtained six figure settlements in workers' compensation cases ranging from complex occupational diseases to common injury by accidents.
  • Obtained a six figure settlement for a pair of women who were sexually harassed and subsequently terminated from their job in a complex employment law case. , 2012
Pro bono/Community Service:
  • Volunteer for local Legal Aid to represent victims of domestic violence in their pursuit of protective orders.   
Honors/Awards:
  • Mathew was named to the North Carolina Rising Stars list as one of the top up-and-­coming attorneys in North Carolina for 2012. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state receive this honor. The selection for this respected list is made by the research team at Super Lawyers., 2012
  • Mathew was also named to the National Trial Lawyers’ list of the top 40 litigators in the State of North Carolina under the age of 40., 2012
Educational Background:
  • J.D., Wake Forest University, 2006; B.A. in Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2003.
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
  • Presenteed “HIPAA – Getting Medical and Other Records and How to Decipher Them” to a group of attorneys in Winston-Salem, NC., Speaker, North Carolina Advocates of Justice, 2012

Office location for Mathew E. Flatow

2319 Crescent Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28207

Selections

4 Years Super Lawyers
10 Years Rising Stars
  • Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2025
  • Rising Stars: 2012 - 2021

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