Damon Pendleton
Founding Partner
As a leader at the Pendleton Law Team, Damon Pendleton plays a vital role in the firm’s business strategy, management, and overall vision. With a keen eye for growth and innovation, he oversees the firm’s operations, ensuring efficiency and excellence in client service. Damon is dedicated to fostering a strong, client-focused team and implementing forward-thinking strategies to drive the firm’s success. His leadership helps shape the firm’s future, allowing it to expand its reach and continue fighting for justice on behalf of injury victims.
Damon is a trial and personal injury attorney in Richmond, VA and he is a best-selling author for his work on the consumer legal guide “Protect and Defend.” Damon focuses his law practice on helping the average person fight the good fight.
Most people involved in an accident are forced to deal with insurance companies. Insurance companies use claims adjusters to investigate, handle, and settle claims. Damon worked as a claims adjuster for five years at one of America’s largest auto insurance companies. There, he settled thousands of cases for the insurance company. Damon was unhappy with how Big Insurance companies used their size to bully the “average Joe,” so now he uses his experience to educate the public about shady insurance company practices.
Damon is a Virginia native and graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and North Carolina Central University School of Law. In law school, Damon helped resurrect the school’s chapter of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) and served as its vice president. Damon enjoys trial work, so he furthered his formal studies receiving a Master of Laws degree in trial advocacy at the Temple University School of Law where he trained under and beside some of the best Plaintiff’s trial attorneys in the country.
Today Damon continues his membership in the AAJ as well as the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA). Damon believes that all Americans deserve the right to a trial by a jury made up of their peers. Damon is admitted to the practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Damon wrote the series of Accident Survival Guides: “Virginia Child Injury Accidents”, Virginia Motorcycle Accidents” and “Virginia Truck Accidents”, as well as the controversial consumer guide “7 Questions The Insurance Company Hopes You Never Ask”.
Damon and his wife, attorney Christina Pendleton, have four children—three boys and one girl. He enjoys spending quality time with his family, whether attending his children’s sporting and theatrical events or traveling to visit loved ones across the globe. With family members spread far and wide, he values the opportunity to connect with them and experience different cultures. Whether on the sidelines cheering for his kids or creating new adventures together, Damon prioritizes family above all else.
