About Donald
Don joined the firm in 1993 and is the Managing Partner and Chair of the firm’s Commercial Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights Practice Group. He practices in the areas of eminent domain, commercial real estate finance, civil litigation, construction law, and business bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. He has provided advice and counsel to clients in commercial real estate financing, loan workouts, construction matters, collections and foreclosures and has successfully represented housing authorities in numerous eminent domain cases.Don has served as President of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association and President of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association and has served on the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association. In January of 2018, Mr. Schultz was inducted as a Fellow in the Virginia Law Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Virginia State Bar. Each year the Foundation selects a group of top lawyers and retired judges for their integrity, character, and legal excellence to be inducted as Fellows.
Don joined the firm in 1993 and is the Managing Partner and Chair of the firm’s Commercial Bankruptcy and Creditor’s Rights Practice Group. He practices in the areas of eminent domain, commercial real estate finance, civil litigation, construction law, and business bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. He has provided advice and counsel to clients in commercial real estate financing, loan workouts, construction matters, collections and foreclosures and has successfully represented housing authorities in numerous eminent domain cases.
Don has served as President of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association and President of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association and has served on the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association. In January of 2018, Mr. Schultz was inducted as a Fellow in the Virginia Law Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Virginia State Bar. Each year the Foundation selects a group of top lawyers and retired judges for their integrity, character, and legal excellence to be inducted as Fellows.
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Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Banking and Finance Law, Norfolk (2026)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Bankruptcy, Norfolk (2022)
- Lawyer of the Year: Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2021)
- Lawyer of the Year: Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2019)
- Lawyer of the Year: Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2015)
- Recognized: Banking and Finance Law
- Recognized: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Recognized: Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Recognized: Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Practice Area: Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Special Focus: Litigation
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
- Virginia Law Foundation (Fellow, 2018)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America® Bankruptcy & Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy, 2011-2018; Eminent Domain & Condemnation Law, 2014-2018
- Best Lawyers' 2015 Norfolk Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law "Lawyer of the Year"
- Listed in Virginia's Legal Elite by Virginia Business Magazine, Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights, 2003, 2009-2017
- Selected to Top 100 Virginia Super Lawyers, 2013, 2015 and 2018
- Listed in Virginia Super Lawyers, Creditor Debtor Rights, 2006-2018
- Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service, Tidewater Council Boy Scouts of America, 2013