Matt K Nguyen

Associate, Cooley LLP

Matt Nguyen’s practice centres on strategic advocacy, with a focus on appellate litigation and government investigations. As the son of Vietnam War refugees and as a commissioned judge advocate in the US Army Reserve, Matt is also committed to Cooley’s pro bono practice, through which he has represented clients in impact litigation concerning constitutional governance, gun violence prevention, voting rights, immigrants’ rights, criminal justice reform and racial justice. Over the past decade, he has also advised elected leaders – the Biden–Harris campaign and transition, the then Senator Kamala Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, and Justice Goodwin Liu – on cutting-edge legal and policy issues.