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Matt is a Managing Director on the loss prevention team of the Professional Services Practice at Aon in North America, which consults with Aon’s law firm clients on a wide range of professional responsibility and liability issues.
Before joining Aon in 2013, Matt was a litigation partner with Lathrop & Gage LLP in Overland Park, Kansas. He was a business trial and appellate lawyer handling commercial, business tort, employment, construction, insurance, professional liability, and regulatory matters. Matt is a current member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
Matt earned his J.D. from the University of Kansas, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Kansas Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and won the C.C. Stewart Award in Law. Matt also earned his B.A. from the University of Kansas. He is admitted to practice law in Kansas and Missouri.
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Matt is a Managing Director on the loss prevention team of the Professional Services Practice at Aon in North America, which consults with Aon’s law firm clients on a wide range of professional responsibility and liability issues.
Before joining Aon in 2013, Matt was a litigation partner with Lathrop & Gage LLP in Overland Park, Kansas. He was a business trial and appellate lawyer handling commercial, business tort, employment, construction, insurance, professional liability, and regulatory matters. Matt is a current member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
Matt earned his J.D. from the University of Kansas, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Kansas Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and won the C.C. Stewart Award in Law. Matt also earned his B.A. from the University of Kansas. He is admitted to practice law in Kansas and Missouri.
Aon Law Firm Advisory - Key Insights Q1 2025
April 2025 - The Aon Professional Services Practice Loss Prevention team is delighted to share with you some of our insights that continue to attract readership and address issues of enduring relevance in 2025.
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April 2025 - The Aon Professional Services Practice Loss Prevention team is delighted to share with you some of our insights that continue to attract readership and address issues of enduring relevance in 2025.
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Aon Law Firm Advisory - Key Insights Q4 2024
December 2024 - As the Loss Prevention Team of the Professional Service Practice at Aon (PSP) looks ahead to 2025, we have been reflecting on current market and risk trends identified through Aon’s extensive data and relationships in the...
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Aon Law Firm Policies & Practices Survey 2024
December 2024 - In February 2024, Professional Services Practice’s Loss Prevention team launched a survey of general counsels of large and sophisticated law firms across the United States to explore their policies and practices relating...
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Takeaways From the 2024 Aon Law Firm Symposium
November 2024 - Aon’s Professional Services Practice held its 21st annual Law Firm Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 23-25, 2024. The Symposium is the premier risk management event for large and sophisticated law firms and the...
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Aon Law Firm Advisory - Key Insights Q3 2024
September 2024 - The Loss Prevention team is pleased to share with you our Law Firm Advisory for Q3 2024, featuring some recent insights from our Professional Services Practice colleagues on risk transfer and risk management issues, from...
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Professional Responsibility Considerations for Law Firm Office Sharing Arrangements
July 2024 - The Professional Services Practice’s Loss Prevention team discusses important professional responsibility considerations for law firms considering sharing office space with other lawyers, including the duty of confidentiality...
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The Mechanics of Lawyer Well-Being: Intervention and Return to Work
December 2023 - It is now clear that lawyers’ mental health is a major concern for law firms. Lawyers experience disturbing rates of anxiety, depression, and stress; numerous lawyers qualify as problem drinkers; substance abuse plagues...
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Risk-Related Thoughts on the Corporate Transparency Act
May 2023 - In a September bulletin, the Professional Services Practice’s Loss Prevention team discusses risk considerations for lawyers who form business entities for clients in light of new reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency...
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UPL Opinion Highlights the Limits of Lawyers’ Temporary Practice in Unlicensed Jurisdictions
May 2023 - Professional Services Practice’s Loss Prevention team reports on a recent opinion by the Illinois State Bar Association that highlights the limits of the temporary practice safe harbors under Illinois’ version of ABA Model Rule 5.5(c).
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Managing Vendor Relationships
January 2023 - Law firms engage a variety of vendors and third parties in their practices, including document review services, e-discovery providers, temporary staff and lawyer services, cloud storage providers, recruiters and placement...
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The Aon Law Firm Cyber Survey 2022
October 2022 - The Aon Loss Prevention team reports on the results of its comprehensive survey of law firm general counsels, managing partners, and chief information security officers about their firms’ cybersecurity infrastructure and...
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Insights from Law Firm Well-Being Leaders at the Aon Law Firm Symposium
December 2021 - Even before the pandemic, discussions around well-being in the legal profession had taken center stage with the 2016 landmark study published by the American Bar Association and the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the National...
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Navigating lawyers’ remote work from unlicensed jurisdictions
February 2021 - Lawyers working remotely from a jurisdiction where they are not licensed to practice likely do not need to be concerned about the unauthorized practice of law (“UPL”) if they are temporarily practicing there due to the pandemic....
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