Matt Kita is Of Counsel at Arias Sanguinetti. Matt’s practice has focused primarily on authoring briefs and presenting oral arguments in Texas and California’s state and federal appellate courts. He also specializes in law-and-motion practice in the trial courts, prepares jury instructions, drafts proposed written opinions to support arbitration awards, and authors comprehensive mediation statements. His civil practice is concentrated on representing victims of personal injuries, civil-rights violations, and reputational torts. He has argued and obtained favorable results for his clients in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits, the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and Texas and California’s intermediate appellate courts.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Matt graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in political science, from the University of Maryland with a master’s degree in education policy and received his law degree from the University of Houston. After law school he served as a law clerk to Justice Eva Guzman on Texas’s Fourteenth Court of Appeals. He represented defendants in civil litigation at a boutique firm in Dallas for six years before opening his solo appellate practice in 2012.

Since 2014, Matt has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer and as one of D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas. And in 2013 and 2023, Matt received the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association’s “John Howie Award,” which recognizes “for the courageous pursuit of justice in the face of adversity.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly to a career devoted to fighting for those who hope for a better future, Matt is a lifelong fan of the Buffalo Bills.

Admissions

• California
• Texas
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern Districts of Texas