With over a decade of public service, Donald Aquinas Lancaster, Jr., MPA, ESQ, served governmental entities as a trusted advisor of intergovernmental affairs.  Experienced in local and state politics, he has an instinctive command of multilayered public and private sector issues and has used those skills in service of both elected officials and public institutions.

 

As an attorney, Mr. Lancaster has demonstrated success as both a litigator and counselor at law. Mr. Lancaster has litigated on behalf of individuals and well as corporate entities with unparalleled results. Skillfully navigating small and midsize businesses through complex transactions inherent with growth, Mr. Lancaster serves as counselor to businesses in need of corporate compliance and governance guidance.  Combined with practice areas in employment law, commercial litigation, wills and trusts, criminal law and bankruptcy, Mr. Lancaster brings a wealth of diverse experience necessary to provide a solid foundation for each client to achieve their short-term and long-range goals. 

 

Mr. Lancaster graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice and Masters Degree in Public Administration.  A graduate of California Western School of Law, he is also a published author in the Howard Law Journal.

 

A member of the State Bar of California, Donald is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeal of the Ninth Circuit; the Northern District Court of California, United States District Court; and the Central District Court of California, United States District Court.

 

Mr. Lancaster holds memberships in the National Bar Association, the Alameda County Bar Association, the Santa Clara Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.  Civically, Mr. Lancaster serves on the Alameda County Assessment Appeals Board, Marin City Health and Wellness Clinic, and is a Section 1983 Pro Bono Panel Attorney for the United States District Court, Eastern District of California.