Donald C. "Don" Schultz
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C.
Recognized since 2011
Norfolk, Virginia
Banking and Finance Law
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Litigation - Bankruptcy
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.
- 150 West Main Street, Suite 1923
Norfolk, VA 23510
- English
- Washington and Lee University, J.D., graduated 1989
- University of Virginia, B.A., graduated 1986
- Virginia, Virginia State Bar
- Virginia Bar Association - Board of Governors; Chairman, Membership Committee
- Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association - (Offices Held: President, Secretary, Treasurer)
- Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association - (Offices held: President, Treasurer, Secretary, Chairman, Young Lawyers Ssection, Chairman, Courts of Justice Committee, Chairman, Bench-Bar Conference Committee)
- Second District Disciplinary Committee - Chairman Section I
- Virginia Beach Bar Association - Member
- Virginia Supreme Court
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
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- Litigation - Bankruptcy, Norfolk (2022)
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2021)
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2019)
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Norfolk (2015)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Litigation
- Virginia Law Foundation (Fellow, 2018)
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
- 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
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
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