Matthew S. Kane, Esq. is a Partner at Cabot Mantanona LLP and has been practicing law since 2012. Mr. Kane specializes in civil litigation, corporate, probate, and administrative law. He also practices federal criminal defense as a member of the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel on Guam. While working at Cabot Mantanona LLP, Mr. Kane has served numerous notable clients including the Government of Guam and many of its agencies and instrumentalities, the Governor of Guam, Lotte Duty Free Guam, LLC, United Airlines, Itochu Petroleum Co. (Singapore), InterContinental Hotels Group (England), Clyde & Co. Clasis (Singapore), Surangel Whipps, Sr. (Palau), Aggreko International Projects Limited (Scotland), Guam Community College, Triple J Motors, and several others.
Prior to coming to Cabot Mantanona LLP, Mr. Kane worked at Cota Cole & Huber LLP, where he represented corporate and municipal clients in civil litigation and administrative matters in several federal and state courts throughout California. Before that, he worked at Mastagni Holstedt, A.P.C. and represented various state and local labor associations and their members in confidential administrative matters and in lawsuits filed on their behalf.
Mr. Kane started his career on Guam as a Research Attorney for the Supreme Court of Guam, where he researched and drafted legal memoranda and opinions of the Court and advised the Supreme Court justices on myriad complex issues that arose on appeal.
Mr. Kane obtained his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). While in law school, Mr. Kane worked at Legal Services of Northern California where he represented underserved and indigent clients, and later worked at the Office of Legislative Counsel in California drafting bills and amendments that changed California law. As a law student he served as a Chair of both the Journal of International Law and Policy and the Trial Practice Honors Board, and he participated in the Prison Law Clinical Program and the UCDC Law Program, later earning Pubic Service Law and Pro Bono Program certificates. He earned the Witkin award in Legal Research and Writing and later served as a teaching assistant for a first-year legal research and writing course taught at King Hall. During law school he also served as a teaching assistant for a political science course taught at UC Davis’ undergraduate school.
After law school, Mr. Kane was awarded a competitive law fellowship with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), which afforded him a unique opportunity to examine legal ethics from the lens of the Holocaust while visiting historic sites in Germany and Poland.
Mr. Kane holds two Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Political Studies from Pitzer College where he attained honors. After undergraduate school, Mr. Kane was granted a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to teach English as a second language for a year in Jeju-Do, South Korea.
EDUCATION
J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law, 2012
B.A., Pitzer College, Mathematics, 2008
B.A., Pitzer College, Political Studies, 2008
BAR ADMISSIONS
Supreme Court of the United States of America
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court of Guam
Supreme Court of Guam
Supreme Court of California
Central District of California
Eastern District of California
Republic of Palau (pro hac vice)
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Tamuning, Guam 96913
Matthew Kane, Esq.