Matthew Knowles is an associate in the Boston office specializing in Complex Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations. Mr. Knowles graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the recipient of the Charles H. Smith Bequest Scholarship in 2009 and 2010 and was named a Dean's Scholar in the Federal Courts and the Federal System. He also graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Government.
While in law school, Mr. Knowles was an Honors Legal Intern at the US Department of Defense Office of Legal Counsel where he focused on habeas corpus cases involving detainees at Guantanamo Bay. He also served as a legal intern at the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Mr. Knowles is the author of "Questions from the Box: Jury Questioning and the Adversarial System," published in the Journal of Politics and Society, 17 ed. (2006) and was a co-author of "ReadMe: Software for Automated Content Analysis for Distributional Patterns" (2007).