Matthew P. Simmons

Matthew Simmons is a Senior Director at FTI Consulting and is based in San Francisco. Mr. Simmons is in the Trial Services practice within the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment.

Mr. Simmons has helped clients with a wide range of matters from patent, trademark and trade secret litigation to products liability matters to medical malpractice and breach of contract cases. Mr. Simmons has also managed pre-trial and courtroom support for numerous International Trade Commission (“ITC”) Section 337 investigations and international arbitrations.

Mr. Simmons has experience working within numerous state and federal jurisdictions as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the ICSID World Bank and the International Trade Commission.

Representative firms include Covington & Burling, DLA Piper, Irell & Manella, King & Spalding, Morrison & Foerster, O’Melveny & Myers, Sidley Austin and Steptoe & Johnson. Representative clients include Abbott, ConocoPhillips, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft and Pfizer.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Simmons worked as a senior paralegal and case manager for a large international law firm. During this time, Mr. Simmons was responsible for designing, preparing and operating electronic databases for a wide variety of high-profile trials, hearings, mediations and settlement conferences. Mr. Simmons has since focused on developing expertise in courtroom presentation, strategy and logistics.

Mr. Simmons earned a B.A. in criminal justice, with a minor in psychology, from San Francisco State University.