Matthew White attended law school at Texas Tech University and was licensed to practice in 2009. Before law school, he coached football for 5 years in Copperas Cove, Texas for Dr. Jack Welch, a legendary high school and college coach whose programs have produced hundreds of outstanding athletes including Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, and an NFL Man of the Year Charles Tillman.

In 2009, Matthew began practicing law in Abilene, Texas with Quanah Parker, an attorney, poet, songwriter, and, in his own words, defender of the crippled, the downtrodden, and the damned. While practicing with Quanah, Matthew had the opportunity to work on a broad range of civil and criminal matters in the big country area, and it was this experience that gave him the skills and knowledge he needed to open his own firm. He moved to Dallas in 2010 and spent the next five years in private practice, focusing mainly on civil litigation in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.

In 2015, Matthew transitioned from private practice to working for Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, where he served as a campus administrator at Grapevine Middle School and then as the associate principal of GCISD Collegiate Academy, an early-college high school on the Tarrant County College Northeast campus. Matthew enjoys working with school administrators, teachers, and students, and he has used his experiences in public education to create a classroom management program to improve teacher-student relationships and significantly decrease disciplinary referrals on high school campuses. For more information, please click here.

During the 2020-21 school year, Matthew began thinking about how he might share what he’s learned with a broader audience while also putting his legal knowledge and skills to use. Black Cloud Law, PLLC originating from this thinking and from the powerful encouragement and support of many colleagues, mentors, friends and family members.

Matthew is married to Lauren White, an attorney with another firm in DFW, and together they are doing their best to be good neighbors and raise three strong-willed children.