Meet Matt
Matt is an award-winning trial attorney who represents victims and their families in complex personal injury and insurance bad faith cases. Matt understands clients who are turning to him for help have experienced a tragedy and need answers, and Matt takes pride in serving as their advocate. In seeking justice for a victim or their family, Matt walks his clients through their options, including litigation, and gives them all the information they need to make their own decision on how to proceed. Among Matt’s recent results achieved for clients: He and Presley and Presley Trial Lawyers overcame numerous immunity challenges to secure a $6.5 million recovery in a police brutality case in which a young man suffered cardiac arrest. Matt also helped represent severely injured individuals in a bus accident where the insured party only had $100,000 of coverage but Presley and Presley Trial Lawyers' review of the insurance company’s actions led to a $11 million jury verdict. Matt also co-writes the firm’s Bad Faith Update newsletter and is constantly researching the insurance industry and their tactics, how they can affect his clients, and how to overcome them.
Matt McCoy's Focus
Today, Attorney McCoy is admitted to the bar in Missouri and Kansas and focuses his efforts on:
- Personal injury claims
- Transportation accidents
- Insurance bad faith cases
Matt currently lives in the Kansas City Metro area with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and all things related to the Royals and Chiefs.
Q&A with Matt
What do you enjoy most about being an attorney and working at Presley and Presley Trial Lawyers?
The challenge of new cases and providing clients with peace and finality, amplified by Presley and Presley Trial Lawyers' focus on unsettled areas of law.
What is your strongest asset as an attorney?
Research and writing skills, particularly in applying legal principles from other jurisdictions to Missouri cases.
What was the driving force behind your pursuit of legal work?
The variety of tasks, from client interaction to research and writing, with the potential for travel for inspections and court hearings.
Do you have any advice for students considering the legal profession?
Be prepared for hard work, less courtroom drama than TV portrays, and the importance of congeniality within the legal community.
What do you most enjoy doing in your spare time?
Hunting, fishing, and watching sports (to the dismay of my wife).
Admissions
- Missouri
- Kansas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Education
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 2015
- University of Central Missouri, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude
Awards
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2023-2024
- Best Lawyers, Ones to Watch, 2023
- Up & Coming, 2019
- The National Trial Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40