Matthew Bissette
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About Matthew Bissette
Matthew Bissette is an attorney at Whitley Law Firm in North Carolina. His practice focuses primarily on workers' compensation, with additional work in product liability, mass torts, motor vehicle accidents, and slip-and-fall cases. He has developed a broad litigation background and has appeared in both North Carolina Superior and District Courts.
Before focusing on workers' compensation, Bissette clerked for judicial officers at the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
He earned his B.A. with a double major in Political Science and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, and his Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in 2018. He was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 2018.
He is a member of the American Association for Justice, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ NEXT Leadership Program 2022), the Wake County Bar, and the North Carolina Bar Association.
Bissette has been recognized as a Rising Star by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly (2021, 2023-2025), in Best Lawyers Ones to Watch in America (2021-2026), and as Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers (2021, 2024, 2025). He was featured in Attorney at Law Magazine in 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Whitley Law Firm Injury Lawyers
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A 41-year-old ironworker left paraplegic when an elevated walkway overhang collapsed under him during a Raleigh mall demolition reached a $4 million confidential settlement with the general contractor.
A commercial truck driver ran a stop sign on a North Carolina country road and killed a 60-year-old man, and his family settled their confidential wrongful-death claim for $3 million, a result that tied for 25th among the state's top verdicts and settlements of 2019.
Chase Cayton, 23, suffered a severe brain injury and a fractured right leg when a pickup turned left across his path, and his suit in Pitt County Superior Court settled for $2,988,396.
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