Getting to Know Maxime Matthew: New Board Member
We’re pleased to share more about Maxime Matthew, one of the valued member of our board of directors. Maxime (they/he) brings a wealth of experience and expertise and we’re excited to have their insights and leadership guiding us forward. Please join us in one again welcoming Maxime to the team!
Maxime (mack-SEEM) Matthew is a fourth-year associate in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group, where they work on litigation and arbitration, antitrust, and intellectual property matters as well as bank and crypto investigations. Maxime also maintains a robust pro bono practice, which has included fighting Arkansas’ transgender healthcare ban in partnership with the ACLU (Brandt v. Rutledge) and co-leading the firm’s work with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund’s Name Change Project.
Maxime is an active member of the firm’s LGBTQ+ Network as well as the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association, including as a member of the BiLaw Caucus and the Trans in BigLaw Networking Group. They previously presented at Lavender Law as part of the “Trans in Big Law Survival Guide.”
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Maxime won the University of British Columbia’s most prestigious undergraduate designation, the Wesbrook Scholar. Among their other accolades, they won a country-wide essay contest, the submission of which was published in the Canadian Journal of Family Law (If More Mormons Attended University, Would Canada be Okay with Polygamy? 35 CAN. J. FAM. L. 1 (2023)). A strong believer in community care, Maxime ran a low-income legal clinic during law school and advocated for LGBTQ2+ students as the Co-President of OutLaws. Before law school, they worked at a boutique family law firm in Vancouver.
In their spare time, Maxime helps organize an LGBTQ+ book club and is an avid theatergoer. Maxime has seen over 120 shows in London’s West End and on New York’s Broadway, including Hamilton three times, and their office walls are covered with Playbills.
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