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Matthew R.Kissling

Partnermoc.eniHnospmohT@gnilssiK.wehttaM
Cleveland

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Matthew R.Kissling

Partner

Focus Areas

  • Inducted into The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland’s Time Well Spent Honor Society, 2024
  • Included in the 2021 to 2025 editions of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Labor and Employment Law-Management
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law Leadership Award
  • Don M. Larrabee Prize for the Best Thesis on History

Professional Associations

  • Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Professional Activities

  • Alpha Chapter House Corporation of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Inc., board member, 2009 to 2015
  • The HUGS Foundation, board member, 2016 to present
  • “Cleveland Construction Hot Topics: Tomorrow’s Construction Industry Headlines,” Thompson Hine Webinar, September 2024
  • “Cannabis and Employment Laws: Navigating Compliance and Drug Testing in the Workplace,” Thompson Hine Webinar, February 2024
  • “Cannabis: A Legal Primer for Employers on a Growing Industry,” Thompson Hine Webinar, February 22, 2023

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2010,
    magna cum laude
    ,

    Order of the Coif; Case Western Reserve Law Review, managing editor

  • Allegheny College, B.A., 2007,
    magna cum laude
    ,

    Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

  • Ohio

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio