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 staffer over the past nine years. 

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Ms. Matricardi’s legal practice includes 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, jewelry vendors, interior designers, artists, musicians, healthcare organizations, and architects.

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
  • OUTSTANDING YOUNG REAL ESTATE LAWYER OF THE YEAR
    2015
    Los Angeles County Bar Association, Real Property Section
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 – present
  • PRESIDENT
    Southwestern University School of Law Alumni Board
    2022-2023
  • CHAIRPERSON
    Diversity Relations Committee
    2018 – 2022
  • CHAIRPERSON
    Alumni Relations Committee
    2018 – 2022
  • MEMBER
    Southwestern University School of Law Dean’s Task Force on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
    2021- present
  • BOARD MEMBER
    California Women’s Law Center
    2020  – present
  • MEMBER,
    Urban Land Institute Los Angeles Leadership Council
    2019
  • BOARD MEMBER,
    Eastside Task Force, appointed by City Council of West Hollywood
    2013
  • FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER
    Equitas Academy Charter Elementary Schools
    2008-09
  • BOARD MEMBER
    Marlborough School 15Y Young Alumni Board of Directors
    2004-2007
Recent Press, Interviews, and Presentations

“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”