Matthew J. Jensen

Matt is an experienced family law and trial attorney.  He practiced law in California for 16 years and operated his own family law practice for over 12 years before moving to Raleigh.

 

Matt has been practicing family law and civil litigation in Wake, Durham, and Wayne counties since 2022 and already has extensive experience representing clients at child custody, child support, post separation support, alimony, and domestic violence trials and handling property division matters.

 

He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana and his juris doctor from the Santa Clara University School of Law.  During law school, Matt was a judicial extern for Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian of the California Court of Appeal (Sixth District) and the Honorable Socrates P. Manoukian of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.

 

Matt is a member of both the North Carolina State Bar and the State Bar of California (inactive) and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals.

 

He practiced general civil litigation from 2006 to 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area and represented municipalities and towns and small businesses during that period.  In 2010, Matt opened his own family law practice in Sunnyvale, California and represented clients in general litigation and divorce, child custody, and child support cases.

 

Matt is pragmatic and takes pride in keeping most of his cases out of the courtroom.  He believes it is important for clients to weigh the costs of litigation against the potential benefits.  When compromises cannot be made, he is not afraid to fight for his clients in court. 

 

Education

B.A., Political Science, Wabash College, Indiana, 1998
J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, California, 2005
 

Admissions

State Bar of California (December 2005)
State Bar of North Carolina (May 2021)