Matthew Shepherd
Lead Counsel, Marketing at The Farmer's Dog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Shepherd is an experienced senior attorney with 11+ years advising growth-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies on advertising, marketing compliance, IP, transactions, and complex disputes across consumer products, digital media, entertainment, and retail. As Lead Counsel, Marketing at The Farmer’s Dog and formerly Senior Counsel for Albertsons’ marketing and retail media, he blends pragmatic legal risk management with hands-on support for creative, influencer, and digital campaigns. He builds scalable internal infrastructure for claims review, counsels senior executives on novel regulatory issues, and steers competitive-advertising disputes from cease-and-desist through litigation. Matthew’s background includes multi-territory licensing and digital distribution work at Sony Music and litigation and regulatory experience from top law firms, giving him a rare combination of transactional, IP, and courtroom-savvy. He pairs a Georgetown J.D. magna cum laude with multidisciplinary training in arts and public management, reflecting a practical curiosity about how creative strategy intersects with law. Beyond typical counsel duties, he has repeatedly created internal playbooks and training resources that translate complex regulatory guidance into actionable processes for marketing teams.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music cum laude Music Performance, Bachelor of Music cum laude Music Performance at Florida State UniversityJuris Doctor magna cum laude, Juris Doctor magna cum laude at Georgetown University Law CenterMaster of Public Management (cum laude) Arts Management, Master of Public Management (cum laude) Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (16)
genetic10
java10
matching9
querying8
bioinformatics6
complexity6
javascript3
monarchinitiative3
data-visualization2
html2
typescript1
owl1
build-tools1
bayesian1
typeahead1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mjshepherd/phenotips
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:116 pushes, 49 branches in 4 months
phenotipsweb-interfaceclinicalgeneticpatients
mjshepherd/patient-network
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 9 branches, 1 comment in 1 year
patientmatchingpatient-matchingphenotips
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