Richard P. Beck is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group and represents developers and builders of residential communities, office campuses, shopping centers, industrial parks, health care facilities, hotels, motels, restaurants and other specialty uses. His areas of experience include the representation of contractors and subcontractors, brokers, landlords and tenants, lenders and borrowers in work-out situations, and zoning/subdivision and other land use matters. He has created numerous condominiums throughout the State of Delaware, including the first such regimes in New Castle County and Kent County. In addition to transactional matters, Mr. Beck has successfully litigated land use cases in a variety of contexts, at both the administrative and judicial levels.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1943, Mr. Beck graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1965 and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1968. He served a clerkship with the Delaware Superior Court and Delaware Court of Chancery before being admitted to the Delaware Bar and joining Morris James in 1969. He is a member of the Delaware State Bar Association and American Bar Association, and has served on the Delaware Advisory Council on Developmental Impact; on the Citizens Committee for the New Castle County Comprehensive Plan; as legislative liaison for the International Council of Shopping Centers; and on the Delaware House of Representatives Land Development Task Force. A past President of The Committee of 100, Mr. Beck is presently a trustee and Secretary for The Kennett Pike Association. In addition to giving various seminars on such matters as land use laws and work-outs, he has published articles in the Delaware Lawyer and Tri-State Real Estate Journal. He is listed in Naifeh & Smith "The Best Lawyers in America," and was recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in Delaware" in Delaware Today magazine, October, 1996. In addition to heading the Firm's real estate group, he also is head of the Firm's technology committee.