Lawyer Matthew Rifat, who did legal work for Dr. Munir Uwaydah from 2013 until 2018, and also owned a bookkeeping service that provided service for Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group and Frontline and Firstline, was indicted in January 2019 by the Riverside County District Attorney. His case went to trial in the Summer of... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat gets seriously disciplined by the California State Bar Court judge, but he does not get disbarred. His trial character witnesses gave stellar reports of his moral character.
Matthew Rifat was disciplined by the California State Bar Court judge. After six years of prodigious litigation occurring as a consequence of being indicted by the Riverside County District Attorney in 2019, his debacle appears to have finally come to a close. His character witnesses at trial clearly made a tremendous impact on the court. ... Read More
Matthew Rifat’s final argument, final brief, finally comes to a close in his California Bar Trial. He had twenty pages worth to say.
The biggest problem attorney Matthew Rifat got into was doing too much work for Dr. Munir Uwaydah. He worked as a contract lawyer, the Law Offices of Matthew D. Rifat, and he worked as a contract bookkeeping service called Parkside Solutions. He started all this work back at the end of the Frontline Medical days,... Read More
Matthew Rifat expresses in final brief he felt confident and reassured because of an “absence of any indictment” from the Los Angeles case
Matthew Rifat, as his own attorney, wrote in the final brief for the California Bar trial, that Matthew the client studied numerous motions. These motions were filed in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s 2015 Indictment cases charging the “Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah”. So, he studied them. Matthew asserted these motions showed fatal weaknesses in the... Read More
Matthew Rifat confronted Vic Beyer, a SIU investigator from Insurance Company of the West, who stopped off at Firstline Health to see about Dr. David Johnson who was billing for patients while he was in jail.
Here’s continuing with Matthew Rifat’s final closing argument brief. It’s long. He’s representing himself here in his case with the State Bar of California. He’s defending himself in pro per. Having gone through over three million dollars of his own money related to his own defense, by paying his lawyers plus court and filing expenses,... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat described the Los Angeles DA’s aggravated mayhem charge as only applying to Tatiana Arnold and not mentioning Dr. Uwaydah’s physician assistant Peter Nelson
Matthew Rifat further argued in his closing brief in his California Bar Trial that Dr. Robin Chorn owned Blue Oak Medical Group twice. He owned the practice once during 2015 and through the end of that year; and then once again in 2017. Matthew got the specific dates wrong in his closing brief, but during... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat, who regularly represented Blue Oak Medical Group, used some of the same old arguments defense attorneys have used for years in his California Bar trial
Into Matthew Rifat’s final brief, which was filed on April 4th 2025, in his California Bar trial, he continued to discuss his testimony from that Bar trial. In 2014, Senate Bill 863 or SB 863, the workers’ compensation reform legislation, was passed and faced opposition. This legislation retroactively imposed filing fees on medical provider claims... Read More
Matthew Rifat’s closing brief. More of what he said…
Matthew Rifat has been quite a businessman and not just a lawyer. It seems to this writer that even if he were to get disbarred, that wouldn’t stop him from being a prosperous and wealthy businessman. F. Lee Bailey has been called the “greatest criminal defense attorney of the 20th Century”, and yet he got... Read More
