Richard H. Matthews

Rick Matthews is a firm shareholder focusing his practice in the areas of litigation, banking and financial institutions, business legal services, and labor and employment law. Rick serves as lead counsel in many of the firm's complex civil matters, both commercial and tort. He routinely advises financial institutions, businesses and governmental institutions on legal matters having potential litigation ramifications. He also supervises transactional work for such clients. He served as Assistant City Attorney for Virginia Beach from 1978 to 1983 and served as Pender & Coward's CEO from 1999-2019. Rick frequently lectures and judges competitions at Regent University School of Law. REPRESENTATIVE CASES & TRANSACTIONS Represented regional banks in a number of multi-million dollar cases involving participation agreements, lender liability defense and creditor's rights. Represented multiple school boards and municipalities in million dollar tort and civil rights cases. Represented ownership of golf course in multiple cases involving utilization of fly ash in construction of facility, involving hundreds of plaintiffs and millions of dollars in claims, contract disputes between participants and indemnity claims. MEMBERSHIPS Virginia Beach Bar Association Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association Chesapeake Bar Association Virginia Bar Association COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT James Kent Inn of Court, Past President Hampton Roads University of Richmond Alumni Association, Past President University of Richmond Law School Association, Past Director Sigma Chi Lifetime Member Pack 53 Chesapeake Boy Scout Association, Former Cub Master Greenbrier Athletic Association, Former Vice President and Director Greenbrier Panthers AAU/USSSA Baseball Program, Co-founder HONORS & AWARDS Coastal Virginia's Top Lawyers, Labor and Employment/Legacy, 2016-2021 Virginia's Legal Elite, Labor/Employment, 2016-2020 ARTICLES Recent Developments in Virginia Sovereign Immunity Law - June 2012 PRACTICE AREAS Banking & Financial Institutions Corporate and Transactional Labor and Employment Litigation Local Government EDUCATION Juris Doctor, University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, 1976 University of Richmond, 1974, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa ADMISSIONS Virginia Supreme Court, 1976 United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1977 United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1995 United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1977 United States Supreme Court, 1980

• Virginia, 1976
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1977
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1977
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 1977
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1980