Matt Segal

I have focused my practice on defending businesses and individuals in white collar criminal investigations and in complex civil litigation. For over thirty years, my clients have included international, regional and local companies, as well as professionals in medicine, the law, real estate, and agribusiness. I regularly represent individuals and corporations under investigation and in legal disputes as the result of their interactions with government agencies and often represents public and elected officials, legislative committees and government agencies. For many years I have represented individuals, including public employees, in need of an attorney as the result of having been subpoenaed for testimony by federal and state legislative committees. Born and raised in New York City, I began my legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in New York City. I was later appointed Special Attorney-in-Charge of a United States Department of Justice, Federal Grand Jury Strike Force in Central Texas. After several years of service in Texas and Los Angeles, I joined the United States Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, as an Assistant United States Attorney. I was then appointed and served as First Assistant United States Attorney, and as the Chief of the Criminal Division, for the Eastern District of California, with offices in Sacramento and Fresno. After leaving the government, I served as managing partner of a litigation firm and, for a time, was the Sacramento based managing partner and member of the Board of Directors of a national law firm largely devoted to government affairs and litigation. I presently serve as President of his law firm, Segal & Associates, PC. I have had the honor of being listed for over twenty years in the national publication Best Lawyers in America; as a Northern California Super Lawyer by San Francisco Magazine; and been listed as one of Sacramento Best Lawyers by Sacramento Magazine. I've been named by Sacramento Business Journal as among the Best of the Bar and for the past two years been recognized as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in Northern California by San Francisco Magazine. Among my community activities, I have served on the Advisory Board of Sacramento Child Advocates; as Board President of Planned Parenthood of Northern California; on the Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Association of Sacramento; as well as on various other committees of organizations acting in the public interest.