experience provided us with
invaluable guidance during times
when we faced critical decisions."
Office: 404-873-8000
1355 Peachtree St NE #2000
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Matt Maguire is a partner at Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C. He is a trial lawyer with a diverse practice that includes litigating against government entities and general business litigation. A substantial amount of Matt's practice is devoted to the representation of government contractors in bid protests and related litigation. Over the past twenty years, Matt has represented either the protester or the winning bidder in the vast majority of bid significant protests heard by the Georgia Department of Administrative Services. He also has experience deciding bid protests as a former Fulton County Bid Protest Hearing Officer. Matt's business litigation experience involves trade secrets and restrictive covenants, employment disputes, whistleblower cases, shareholder and partnership break-ups, and construction and real estate disputes.
Matt’s legal expertise has been sought by Georgia house and senate subcommittees and task forces on topics ranging from procurement practices at the Atlanta airport to the jurisdiction of the courts to resolve internal disputes within religious organizations. Matt has also testified as an expert witness in a jury trial before the Georgia Statewide Business Court.
Before joining Parks, Chesin & Walbert, Matt was a partner in a full-service southeastern regional firm where he served on the firm's executive committee. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected several times as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Law and Politics and Atlanta Magazine, and as a "Legal Elite" by Georgia Trend magazine. Matt was featured in 2008 in the Fulton County Daily Report as one of twelve Georgia attorneys under the age of 40 who are "on the rise." Matt graduated from Leadership Georgia's Class of 2011 and is a former chair of the Litigation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association.
J.D., Georgia State University College of Law, 1995
Member, Georgia State University Law Review
B.A., University of Virginia, 1990
State Bar of Georgia
Lawyers Club of Atlanta
Atlanta Bar Association
American Bar Association