Partner Matthew Cross Returns to CMDA

We are pleased to announce that a familiar face is back in the Firm’s Traverse City office. Please join us in welcoming Matthew W. Cross back to CMDA.

Matt Cross is a partner in our Traverse City office where he focuses his practice in the areas of insurance defense litigation, law enforcement defense and litigation, and municipal law. Matt has experience handling employment law, personal injury defense, marijuana licensing litigation, and other municipal issues and has earned dismissals in each of these areas.

Previously, Matt worked as a judicial research attorney for Judge John Murphy in the Wayne County Circuit Court and as an associate attorney at two prominent firms. He previously served as Assistant City Attorney for Petoskey and Boyne City. Matt currently represents several municipalities and a public health organization. In his free time, he serves as an on-call firefighter for the Resort Bear Creek Fire Department.

Matt has been selected as a Michigan Rising Star by Michigan Super Lawyers from 2018-2023; Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in 2022 and 2023; and an Up & Coming Lawyer by Michigan Lawyers Weekly in 2023.

He can be reached in the Firm’s Traverse City office at (231) 922-1888 or mcross@cmda-law.com.