Matt regularly speaks, writes and collaborates with his colleagues and other wine/vineyard/hospitality industry members about developments in these business sectors and related legal issues, strategies for fostering productive business relationships (and, therefore, useful contracts) and the best methods for avoiding and/or navigating disputes. Matt was named in 2004 and continues to serve as a member of the Planning Committee for the Wine Industry Symposium Group, which plans and organizes the annual Vineyard Economics Seminar and Wine Industry Financial Symposium in Napa.
The following is a list of Matt’s publications and presentations over the course of the last several years:
PUBLICATIONS
- Building and Enforcing a Better Grape Contract in Uncertain Times, Wine Business Monthly, April, 2010. Download Article. Article also discussed in editor’s column in the same issue, entitled Spring in the Wine Business.
- Lending to Bankrupt Businesses, Northbay Biz, September 2009. Download Article
- It may be time to revisit property’s assessed value, North Bay Business Journal, December 1, 2008. Download Article
- Interviewed in Lien Times (an article about producer’s and grower’s liens), Northbay Biz, October, 2004. Download Article
- Planning for a co-owner’s woes, Interviewed in North Bay Business Journal. August 3, 2004. Download Article
- Avoiding Harvest Disputes, North Bay Business Journal, May 25, 2004. Download Article
- Bulk Wine Secrets: What’s In a Name?, Wine Business Monthly, June 1, 2003. Download Article
- Article published at Temple Law Review: Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Admissibility Question, 68 Temp. L. Rev. 249 (1995). Download Article. Later cited in Peterson v. Huso, 552 N.W.2d 83 (N.D. 1996), reprinted in Women and the Law, Clark, Boardman Callaghan, 1996, discussed in Considerations for Experts in Assessing the Credibility of Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 2006, Vol. 12, No. 4, 419 – 441 (Download Article).
PRESENTATIONS
- “Picking” a Fight: How to Navigate (or Avoid) Wine Industry Disputes in Precarious Times. Moderated panel at Wine Industry Financial Symposium (September 14, 2009). Download Power Point.
- Hang Time Issues (late picking of fruit and its effect on winery-grower relations). Moderated panel at Vineyard Economics Seminar (2006).
- Grape Crop and Bulk Wine Update. Spoke at Wine Industry Financial Symposium (2005).
- Winery-Grower Contracts. Participated in panel at Wine Industry Financial Symposium (2004)
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