Law Office of Matthew T. Paulk

I Acquired My Trial Skills Early In My Career And I Have Been Honing Them Ever Since I graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1995 and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar the same year. After my admission to the bar, I spent five years as a Public Defender in the City of Richmond. As a Public Defender, my job was to represent people who were facing criminal and/or traffic charges, but who could not afford to hire a lawyer. Those five years gave me the kind of trial experience most trial lawyers only dream of. I was in court, trying cases, practically every day for five years. Those cases ranged from relatively minor cases to cases literally involving life and death. When I left the Public Defender’s Office in 2001 and opened the Law Office of Matthew T. Paulk, I brought the trial skills I learned and honed as a Public Defender to the private sector, where I expanded my practice to include family law and personal injury. What I quickly learned was that the skills I had acquired as a Public Defender were perfectly suited to the trial of a family law or personal injury matter.