Matthew Nussbaum

Matthew Nussbaum is a Training Attorney at Inner City Law Center’s Tenant Defense Project, training new attorneys to defend tenants in Los Angeles County from eviction lawsuits. Before that, he was a Housing Justice Fellow at Inner City Law Center’s Preventing and Ending Homelessness Project, where he helped to remove legal barriers Los Angeles County residents faced to obtaining or maintaining safe and habitable housing, including filing harassment lawsuits, expunging criminal records, clearing debt from civil records, completing name change petitions, and more. 

Matt graduated from NYU Law School in 2021. While studying at NYU Law School, he co-directed the Prison Teaching Project – a program offering classes on legal research methods to prisoners in Rikers, Taconic Correctional Facility, and Bedford Correctional Facility. He also participated in the school’s Immigrant Rights Clinic, where he worked to contest the deportation of a client, and the Racial Justice Clinic, where he prepared a client for their upcoming parole board hearing. During the summers, Matt interned at Staten Island Legal Services’ Housing Unit and the Public Defender’s Office of Alameda County.

Prior to law school, Matt worked as an assistant paralegal for Fragomen, a law firm specializing in business immigration, and was a member of the Glide Harm Reduction Clinic in San Francisco. Matt received his B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University, graduating in 2016.