Senior Attorney

Matt Ludt

Matt has been practicing law in Minnesota since 2003. From 2003 to 2012, he was the principal owner and senior attorney for the Law Office of M.E. Ludt, LLC, where he served clients in Washington, Ramsey, Hennepin, Anoka, Chisago, Dakota, Pine, Goodhue, Sherburne, Scott, and Wright counties with their divorce, custody, child support and other legal needs.

While Matt practiced other areas of law, in 2012, he acted on his recognition that the cases that he found most gratifying were his family law cases. Motivated by his desire to help people through the complex transitions that accompany divorce and child custody matters, Matt narrowed his practice areas and founded Atticus Family Law.

Matt grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended college at UW-Eau Claire, where he studied Economics, Political Science, and Public Communication. Upon graduation, Matt spent a year working in Madison lobbying legislators, the Governor, and the state’s federal representatives in Washington D.C., before attending law school at Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law. While Matt chose Temple for its exceptional Trial Advocacy program, he appreciated the opportunity to spend time with his grandparents and family in the Philadelphia area.

Matt’s Awards

When Matt returned to the Upper Midwest after law school, he lived outside Minneapolis and then near Saint Paul before he and his wife purchased a home in Stillwater, Minnesota. In 2010 the Ludts and their three dogs, Harper, Atticus, and Truman, moved to Polk County, Wisconsin, where they lived with fourteen hens – Poppy, Cora, Dorothy, Doris, Fern, Harriet, Nelle, Evelyn, Minnie, Holly, Mame, Vera Charles, Violet, and Ilsa– and two French Copper Marans roosters (with big personalities) named Little Bird and Francis. In 2016 the Ludts and the remaining members of the household, Truman and Abner the cat, moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota.

One of Matt’s favorite books is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Matt wasn’t the first led into law by Atticus Finch, and he won’t be the last. But it is this simplicity and lack of pretension that helps it pack its considerable punch. It is accessible, touchingly human, and intimate; it also tackles enduring questions of discrimination and injustice. It is also what Matt named his dog and his law firm after.

One part of the book has stayed with Matt to this day – “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” Atticus tells his children. Matt tries to live by this principle every day.