Matthew Ploeger

Attorney

24 yrs experience
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Bar admitted 2001
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Houston, TX

Bar admissions

Texas
2001
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Education

J.D.; Ph.D., M.A., B.A. — Sociology of Law-Criminology: Stanford Law School2001
Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin

Awards and recognition

01Texas Super Lawyers (2019–2024)
02Texas Rising Stars (2006, 2008–2011)
03Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
04Stanford Law Review — Executive Editor

Memberships

State Bar of Texas
Austin Bar Association
Civil Appellate Law Section, Austin Bar Association (past chair)
Third Court of Appeals Pro Bono Committee
Texas Supreme Court Historical Society
Stanford Law Alumni Chapter, Austin Region (founder/past chair)
Texas Bar Foundation

Background

Matthew Ploeger is an appellate attorney working with Sutliff & Stout in Houston and Austin. Before law school he earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology of Law-Criminology from the University of Texas at Austin, then earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School (2001), where he served as Executive Editor of the Stanford Law Review and was a research assistant to Professor Marc A. Franklin. He began his legal career as a judicial clerk to Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court and spent over a decade in the appellate practice group of a major law firm before opening his own appellate practice. He handles all manner of appeals, summary judgments, jury charges, and post-verdict motions, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer every year since 2019.

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