Matthew Ornstein biography
Matthew Ornstein, Esq., is the Director of Litigation and Enforcement of NVRDC's legal program. As Director, Matt oversees the day-to-day operations, cases, and legal matters undertaken by NVRDC's legal staff and directs the overall litigation strategy of NVRDC's enforcement efforts. Matt has worked as a crime victims' rights attorney since 2010 and has represented survivors in both trial and appellate matters on a variety of issues affecting crime victims' rights. Matt has served as appointed counsel to minor-survivors of crime as well as represented adults under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, state-constitutional and statutory laws, and has directly assisted survivors of crime in reporting to police and prosecutors. Through NVRDC, Matt has provided local CLE and pro bono training to attorneys interested in crime victims rights and has presented at national conferences such as the National Crime Victims' Law Institute's annual Crime Victim Law Conference and the international summit provided by the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma. Before coming to NVRDC, Matt was a staff attorney at the Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center where he represented crime victims in Federal and Maryland-state criminal proceedings and appellate matters. Matt graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2008 and afterwards served as law clerk to the Honorable Paul Hackner and the Honorable Nancy Davis-Loomis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Matt is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar Associations.