Matthew T. Vela, Esq. is the President and Principal Attorney of Residence Rights: your full-service legal partner throughout all of your residential legal needs. An Orange County native, Mr. Vela is an experienced civil litigator with years of both big law and small firm experience. However, after years of running the gamut from one law firm to the next, Mr. Vela decided it was time to step away from conventional corporate America and confront arguably the biggest generational problem of our time: the housing crisis.