Description of Practice:
Matthew Marino is a senior counsel in the litigation department in the San Diego office primarily working on commercial, construction, real estate, and water rights litigation, practicing in all of the state and federal courts in California as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings. He has a diverse litigation background with additional experience with landlord/tenant matters, class actions, environmental litigation, government enforcement issues, and libel and Internet free speech litigation. Mr. Marino also has done substantial work in the area of gaming law and for gaming interests, including government regulation of gaming entities and Internet gaming and sports betting issues.
Mr. Marino is a member of the International Association of Gaming Attorneys and has twice been published that organization's trade magazine, The Gaming Lawyer: The Plastic Empire: Regulation of Credit Cards and Online Gaming (The Gaming Lawyer, Summer 2002) and "Virtual Vigorish: Jay Cohen, Internet Wagering, and the Wire Act" (The Gaming Lawyer, Summer 2000).
Educational History:
Mr. Marino received his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University in 1996 and his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1999. During law school, Mr. Marino worked for one year as a judicial intern to the Honorable Brook Hedge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Mr. Marino practiced law in Washington, DC. |