Matthew P. Tyrrell

Matt’s primary practice is dedicated to representing management and executives in all aspects of the employment relationship. Matt also represents individuals and businesses in complex commercial litigation disputes, including employment matters.

Employment Counseling: advises clients how to successfully navigate complex employment and workplace legal issues, with the primary objective of preventing employment litigation and exposure from the outset. To that end, Matt emphasizes fresh perspectives and creative solutions when counseling clients on difficult employment law issues. Matt’s employment counseling experience encompasses all aspects of the employment law framework, including employment contracts, restrictive covenants, severance agreements, and counseling clients regarding compliance with federal, state, and local employment-related laws and claims.

Employment Litigation: In many instances, employment litigation is necessary or unavoidable. Matt has successfully represented clients in a broad-range of employment disputes in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, as well as in alternative dispute proceedings, including private arbitrations and mediations.

Complex Commercial Litigation: In addition to his employment practice, Matt represents clients in a variety of complex commercial litigation covering a broad spectrum of commercial disputes, including contract disputes, business torts, unfair competition, fraud, professional negligence, insurance disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder disputes, defamation, invasion of privacy, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, real estate, sales representative statutes, and others.

Matt received his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he served as Lead Articles Editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal and received the CALI award for academic excellence in legal writing and employment discrimination. While in law school, he interned for the Honorable James F. Henry (ret.) in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Matt has been selected as an Emerging Lawyer in the area of employment law by the Leading Lawyers Network in the state of Illinois from 2016 to 2021, and to the Rising Stars list by Illinois Super Lawyers Magazine from 2014 to 2019. Matt received his B.A. from Indiana University Bloomington with Honors. During college, he interned for then-U.S. Senator Evan Bayh on Capitol Hill and spent a semester in Germany studying and traveling the European Union.

The primary focus of Matt’s practice is dedicated to representing management and executives in all aspects of the employment relationship, including employment agreements, severance agreements and non-compete agreements, reductions in force, EEO laws, and human resources practices.  In addition, Matt represents client in various employment litigation matters, including wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, retaliatory discharge, employment discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, whistleblower, and various other employment-related claims in federal and state courts and administrative agencies.  In addition to his employment practice, Matt also represents individuals and businesses in a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters in federal and state courts.

• J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• B.A., Indiana University – Bloomington (with Honors)

• Chicago Bar Association
• Faculty, National Business Institute, Inc.

• Illinois Bar Association
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (General and Trial Bar member)
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit