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Matthew C. Kane
Attorney Bios

Matthew C. Kane

Director 

Matt focuses primarily on complex litigation, white-collar defense and other business and environmental litigation, including a variety of noteworthy cases such as the defense and acquittal of a white-collar defendant in a billion dollar criminal securities case, proceedings to remove a judge before the Oklahoma Court of the Judiciary, and the return of a child to his parent under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Prior to joining the firm, Matt served as a Legal Intern for Chief Judge Robin Cauthron of the Western District of Oklahoma and the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Matt has also developed projects for various entities such as the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence relating to the legal aspects of the war on terror. Matt received the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Award of Merit for his pro bono representation relating to international child abduction litigation and the 2009 Oklahoma Bar Association Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award for the Best Written Article published in The Oklahoma Bar Journal.

 

 

 

Education

  • B.A., History, University of Oklahoma
  • J.D., OU College of Law, with Distinction
  • Comfort Scholar and Edwards Fellow
  • International undergraduate/post-graduate studies at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan); Fudan University (Shanghai, China); Xi'an University of Foreign Studies; Beijing University; and St. Andrews University (Scotland)

Bar Admissions/Professional Organizations

  • Admissions: Oklahoma, Tenth Circuit of Appeals, Federal Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma, Oklahoma County and American Bar Associations (Vice Chair of the International Criminal Law Committee, 2004-2005)
  • Federal Bar Association
  • American Society of International Law
  • American Society of Law and Philosophy
  • ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, First Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court September 2002 and February 2003
  • Working Group on the Code of Conduct for the International Criminal Bar to the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Bar, February 2003
  • ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, First Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, September 2002
  • International Criminal Law Network, International Law in Practice, The Hague, June 2002
  • ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, Ninth Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court, April 2002
  • Panelist, Terrorism, Islam and International Law, University of Oklahoma, October 2001
  • Panelist, National ILSA/ASIL conference, September 2001

Publications

 

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