Alicia Matricardi is the Founder and CEO of Matricardi Law, A Professional Law Corporation.

Ms. Matricardi’s civil law practice is focused on transactional real estate law, and business growth for amazing companies, including for-profit, nonprofit, and companies dedicated to the expansion of the triple-bottom line: profits positively impacting people and places. She handles a wide range of transactional real estate matters for real estate owners and their respective business entities, landlords, and large retail tenants. Ms. Matricardi advises nonprofits specializing in the creation of affordable housing developments, and provides guidance to nonprofits on their structuring, risk prevention, governance and HR matters as required for clients to adeptly navigate problem-solving and 3rd party interactions with private and public funders. She retains experience as a former General Counsel and Chief of Development for a nonprofit affordable housing developer with $200M in real estate assets as their counsel, head of acquisitions/new construction, and lead fund development executive for ten years.

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Ms. Matricardi’s legal practice works to spearhead, design and paper deals to create business growth for amazing entrepreneurs and thought-leaders who are creating results. She is involved in championing client needs, including representation of publicly-traded companies, real estate developers, trusts, restaurants and quick-serve vendors, personal beauty care companies, online entrepreneurs, military grade tactical equipment manufacturers, healthcare organizations, artists, musicians, and architects.

The audacity of a law firm, and its principal, to lead, to advocate, to listen, and to remain relentless. This is Matricardi Law.

Education
  • SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
    JURIS DOCTOR
  • HAGMAN SCHOLAR AWARD
    UCLA Extension Land Use and Real Estate Law Conference
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Lusk School of Real Estate Summer Program in Real Estate Development
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    BACHELOR OF ARTS
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS
    Executive Leadership Fellow
  • GROWING DIVERSE HOUSING DEVELOPERS
    Inaugural Cohort Member on behalf of nonprofit affordable housing developer New Economics for Women

 

“If you know like I know/
You don’t wanna step to this…
213 will regulate.”
-Nate Dog and Warren G, “Regulate”

                                                        

Professional Honors

  • PRESIDENT, SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    2022-2023

  • TRUSTEE, SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    2022-2023

  • ORIENTATION KEYNOTE SPEAKER, August 14, 2024 for Southwestern Law School’s 2024 Law School Orientation, Los Angeles, California.

  • SPEAKER, May 19, 2023 for Southwestern Law School’s 2023 Commencement Ceremony, Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California.

  • HOST, June 15, 2023 for Southwestern Law School’s 2023 Alumni Association Awards Gala for presentation of four Alumni Awards, Skirball Center, Los Angeles, California.

  • APPOINTED NATIONAL COHORT MEMBER, 2022-2027
    Growing Diverse Housing Developers Program, a collaboration of Momentus Capital, Wells Fargo, and the Low-Income Investment Fund on behalf of the nonprofit organization New Economics for Women

  • OUTSTANDING YOUNG REAL ESTATE LAWYER OF THE YEAR , 2015
    Los Angeles County Bar Association, Real Property Section

     

 

“The waxy residue on your rhyme style is ridiculous/
If you’re misogynist
then you probably cannot get with this/
If you sit with this, we’ll leave no witnesses/
See nobody can touch
what Jah bless/
and I mean this/
So I be like Osiris… better yet I’m Isis/
If you talkin’ female MCs/
say that I’m the nicest.”

-a freestyle at the Apollo Theater, Lauryn Hill

Publications
  • JOURNAL OF TRANSPORTATION LAW, LOGISTICS AND POLICY
    AUTHOR, Law Journal Article: “Los Angeles Missed the Bus: Lessons in Transportation Equity”, Published in the Fourth Quarter Edition, 2006
Boards & Appointments
  • TRUSTEE
    Southwestern University School of Law Board of Trustees,
    2022 – 2023
  • PRESIDENT
    Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board
    2022-2023
  • CHAIRPERSON
    Diversity Relations Committee, Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board
    2018 – 2022
  • CHAIRPERSON
    Alumni Relations Committee, Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board
    2018 – 2022
  • DIRECTOR
    California Women’s Law Center Board of Directors
    2021 – 2024
  • APPOINTED MEMBER
    Urban Land Institute Los Angeles Leadership Council
    2019
  • MEMBER
    Southwestern University School of Law Dean’s Task Force on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
    2021- 2024
  • BOARD MEMBER
    California Women’s Law Center
    2020  – 2025
  • PUBLICLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBER
    City Council of West Hollywood Eastside Task Force
    2013
  • BOARD MEMBER
    Marlborough School 15Y Alumni Board of Directors
    2004-2007
Recent Press, Interviews, and Presentations

 

“Microphone checka,
swingin’ sword lecture/
Closing down the sector, supreme neck protector…Don’t clash with the Titan
who blast with a license.”

-Method Man, Da Rockwilder by Meth and Redman

“This sound hard, something funky that the people gonna dance to
Give the record a second and a chance to/
Hittin people like a scene of amazement
While they slippin back my feet is planted in the pavement
Crumble I can never do/ So now I’m lookin dead at you
What are you gonna do?/ You listen to the knowledge of a scholar
You say ‘Hi Breed,’ now tell em how I holler.”

-MC Breed, “Ain’t No Future in Your Frontin”