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+ Millions Recovered for California tenants

Sue Your Landlord For
Unsafe conditions

Old buildings left to rot, rent-stabilized tenants pushed out, speculators who bought the building and inherited your rights. These cases go to court, and they get fought all the way to appeal.

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Habitability

Decades of deferred repairs. Mold, pests, leaks, sinkholes, rotting floors. When an owner refuses to invest in their own building, tenants pay the price. That is a lawsuit.

Wrongful Eviction

Rent-stabilized tenants are a target. Speculators buy buildings and push long-term tenants out to reset rents. Illegal evictions and wrongful displacement get fought in court.

Tenant Harassment

Landlords who make life unbearable to force tenants out face liability under local ordinances across Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Long Beach, and Santa Barbara.

15+ Years in litigation
2011 Practicing since
CA State & federal courts
The Law Office of Matthew B. Roberts

Tenants versus
landlord greed.

California has some of the strongest tenant protections in the country, and some of the most aggressive landlords. Owners who let buildings decay, new buyers who target rent-stabilized tenants, speculators who treat eviction as a business strategy. Matthew Roberts built this practice to fight them in court. No landlord-side work, ever. No conflicts. Just tenants.

What Landlord Greed Looks Like

These are the cases
we take to court

Unsafe Conditions

Mold, pests, water intrusion, sinkholes, rotting floorboards, collapsing roofs. When the building itself becomes a danger, tenants have a case.

Broken Plumbing & Electrical

Leaking pipes, no hot water, faulty wiring, illegal electrical work. Landlords are required to maintain basic habitability and they know it.

Wrongful Eviction

Illegal evictions, forced displacement, and loss of rent-controlled housing. I fight to get tenants back home or fully compensated for what they lost.

Tenant Harassment

Landlord harassment and intimidation tactics in rent-controlled cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Long Beach, and Santa Barbara.

Disability Access

Failure to provide required accessibility accommodations. Tenants with disabilities are protected under both state and federal law.

Discrimination

Housing discrimination based on race, national origin, disability, familial status, or source of income. California law is broad, and it has teeth.

Heater & Ventilation Failures

No heat in winter, broken HVAC, poor ventilation leading to mold or health hazards. A landlord who ignores these complaints is inviting a lawsuit.

Dangerous Premises

Injuries caused by a landlord's failure to maintain safe premises. From broken stairs to flooding to structural collapse, property owners are accountable.

Case Spotlight

Helali v. Walmart, Inc.

No. G063092  ·  Cal. Ct. App., 4th Dist., Div. 3  ·  Apr 2024

Appellate Victory

A plaintiff was injured on dangerous premises and a trial court granted Walmart summary judgment, effectively ending the case before it could reach a jury. Matthew Roberts took the appeal and reversed that ruling at the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District.

The reversal put the case back in front of a jury and held that the plaintiff's claims deserved to be heard on the merits. It is the kind of result that changes outcomes for clients who were told they had no path forward.

Issue: Dangerous premises conditions  ·  Court: California Court of Appeal  ·  Outcome: Summary judgment reversed

Matthew B. Roberts, tenant rights attorney

Education

JD (2011), University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN

BA with Honors (2008), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Admitted

All California state and federal courts, including all appellate courts

Meet Matt

On the right side
of every case

Matthew B. Roberts has built a career in the courtroom. Since 2011, he has served as litigation counsel, including trial and appeal, for a wide range of clients. In 2013 he became a Californian for life, when he began representing insurance carriers and their policyholders in coverage and bad faith actions, as well as wrongful death, catastrophic injury, and property loss cases.

In 2019 he transitioned to the plaintiff bar, where he prosecuted consumer mass litigation against Fortune-500 manufacturers. In early 2022, he formed the Law Office of Matthew B. Roberts, emphasizing tenant rights litigation, including wrongful eviction, habitability, and tenant harassment.

Mr. Roberts takes trials and appeals on referral from other competent plaintiff attorneys.

Licensed and in good standing to practice before all state and federal courts, including all appellate courts, in California.

Your landlord
has a lawyer.
So should you.

Landlord greed does not stop on its own. If your building has been neglected, if you were pushed out of a rent-stabilized unit, if the harassment has made your home unlivable, you have the right to fight back. Tell me what happened and I will tell you if you have a case.

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