{"id":2129,"date":"2015-10-06T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ebuckhor\/?page_id=1787"},"modified":"2015-10-06T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:56:12","slug":"matthew-allen-92","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/profiles\/matthew-allen-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Allen &#8217;92"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1863\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Matt-Allen-091101_A233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1863\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Matt-Allen-091101_A233.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Allen '92\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Allen &#8217;92<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>DEGREES:<\/strong> B.A. in history; J.D. with certificate in environmental law, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis &amp; Clark College<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOB TITLE:<\/strong> Attorney<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY:<\/strong> Without a doubt, all of the fun times in Jarvis during freshman year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How did you come to specialize in winery and vineyard law?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI developed a passion for wine and happened to have a client buying a vineyard in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How does it differ from other specialties in which you have worked?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIt was totally different from any type of law that I had practiced, and the first several years were a huge learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>I had previously been a litigator in Atlanta defending large auto companies and other manufacturers in catastrophic injury claims. I now represent wineries in transactional work and with regard to licensing and have started up dozens of wineries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What do you enjoy most about your work?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong> I enjoy helping my clients reach a long-held dream of owning a winery and creating great estate wines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What are the biggest challenges?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe biggest challenges are getting winery projects through the regulatory hurdles of permitting and licensing. California and Santa Barbara County in particular are not the most business-friendly environments, and getting any sort of land-use approvals in this area can take a lot of time and money.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Was there a Trinity professor who was particularly influential?<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>If so, who was it, and why?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIn looking back on my Trinity career, there was no one professor who was more influential than others. I had many great professors and loved that the school encouraged you to try different areas of study outside your major, as I started out wanting to be a biology major. [I turned toward history because] I really liked some of my history classes and in particular early American history of our founding fathers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How did your experiences at Trinity prepare you for what you do today?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWhile Trinity gave me a great skill set in reading and writing from my history major that I use every day, the most important skill that Trinity taught was people skills. The level of interaction with faculty and classmates at a small school like Trinity provided me with invaluable people skills moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEGREES: B.A. in history; J.D. with certificate in environmental law, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis &amp; Clark College JOB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1468,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}