Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Matthew Carter has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as an associate attorney. He focuses his practice in civil litigation.

Prior to joining Cranfill Sumner, he served as a law clerk for Judge Jefferson Griffin at the North Carolina Court of Appeals and completed internships at the North Carolina Business Court and the North Carolina Supreme Court. While in law school he served as an Advocacy Fellow, was an active member of the Moot Court Board, and worked as a student-attorney in Elon University’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Clinic.

He received his law degree cum laude from Elon University and his bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University.