Gerald J. Maatman, Jr.

"Jerry" Maatman is a Chambers-recognized class action defense litigator, a six-time Law360 Employment Law MVP, nine-time recipient of BTI Consulting Group's distinguished Client Service All-Star recognition, and a 2021 Legal 500 Hall of Fame inductee. Mr. Maatman is a partner at Duane Morris LLP, where he chairs the firm's Class Action Group. He has written and lectured widely on all aspects of labor and employment law. Among his various cases, Mr. Maatman successfully defended the largest Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pattern or practice lawsuit ever prosecuted in the history of the EEOC, the largest age discrimination collective action ever brought in Illinois, the first sexual harassment class action brought by a state attorney general in the United States, and the largest wage-and-hour class/collective action brought in New York. A graduate of Washington & Lee University and the Northwestern University School of Law, where is he adjunct professor, Mr. Maatman is based in Duane Morris's Chicago and New York offices.