Before The University of Akron, Matthew attended Cuyahoga Community College and was elected Student Government President of the Western Campus and Vice-President of the Joint Student Council serving the students at all three of Cuyahoga Community College’s campuses. During this time, Matthew also served in the United States Senate in the late Senator George V. Voinovich’s Office in Washington, D.C.

In 2015, he graduated from the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law with a Certificate of Concentration in Civil Litigation. Before graduating from law school, Matthew married Brandy, his college sweetheart.

In the summer of 2014, Matthew served as a Legal Intern in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office under Prosecutor Daniel Lutz. He conducted over 100 arraignments and served both in the Prosecutor’s Criminal and Civil Divisions. From 2015 to 2016, he was employed in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, under Attorney General Mike DeWine, as a Law Clerk, and later as an Assistant Ohio Attorney General in the Criminal Division-Habeas and Corrections Litigation Units. In June 2016, Matthew became a member of the Eques family as a Litigation Associate and turned Partner in early 2020. Although Matt Kearney focuses on HOA Law and Condo legal matters but he also practices in criminal, oil and gas, and civil complex litigation.

He has been admitted to the Ohio Bar, the Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the Bar of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and the Bar of the United States Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit.