Matt Reh focuses his practice on real estate and tort litigation.

Representing banks, developers, municipalities, pipeline companies, and a wide range of governmental entities, Matt provides assistance in private and public condemnation matters. His work most frequently includes using eminent domain in connection with community redevelopment projects.

Matt serves property owners, from individual home owners to national retailers, architects, engineers, and other professionals in disputes involving mechanics’ liens. His experience extends to annexations, lease disputes, and zoning disputes for commercial and residential property owners.

In Missouri and southern Illinois, Matt handles tort matters. He defends claims for products liability for clients who manufacture food materials, home appliances, industrial products, law enforcement devices and recreational equipment. Matt regularly counsels manufacturers on the content and form of their warnings.

Most recently, Matt represented oil pipeline companies in connection with plume litigation in various communities in central and southern Illinois. This litigation features allegations that petroleum releases have created plumes of hydrocarbons beneath businesses and homes, causing property damage, severe personal injuries, and wrongful death.

Matt invests significant time in providing legal services to charitable organizations and individuals on a pro bono basis. In 2008, he represented a shelter for victims of domestic violence in a probate dispute, securing approximately $200,000 in funds for the shelter and its residents. Also in 2008, and in connection with the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, he acquired property using eminent domain for the construction of a community health center in north St. Louis, Missouri. In addition, he prosecuted a claim for racial and sexual discrimination on a pro bono basis, trying the case to a jury in federal court in 2006.