Previous Law Firm Name

• Donahue, Gallagher, Thomas & Woods, June 30, 1993

Law Firm Overview

Donahue Gallagher Woods LLP conducts a highly diversified civil practice, providing a full range of litigation, business counseling, transactional, and alternative dispute resolution services in the areas of business, corporate, real estate, intellectual property, employment, immigration, creditors’ rights, and insurance, as well as services in the areas of trusts and estate planning. Ourclients range from individuals, sole proprietorships, and small, family-owned businesses to multi-national Fortune 500 corporations, including some of the country’s most prominent technology companies and retailers.

The firm was founded in 1918 and has offices in Oakland, Mill Valley, and Walnut Creek. Each of our attorneys brings several areas of expertise to the practice of law, allowing us to maintain a dynamic, flexible firm structure. The breadth of our experience and our cooperative culture enable us to offer our clients the sophistication and expertise of a larger firm, while retaining the responsiveness and efficiency of a smaller firm. Throughout nearly nine decades of providing legal services, our goal always has been to provide our clients with the highest quality of service in the most cost-effective manner. To achieve this end, we carefully staff all projects, matching client objectives with the professional skills and experience of our practitioners. Whenever possible, one attorney assumes full responsibility for handling a matter. For more complex transactions or litigation, we assemble a team suited to the special demands of the matter. Whether we are retained to provide representation for a single matter or to handle a client’s ongoing legal needs, we strive to develop a close working relationship with our clients so that we may effectively represent them.

Our transactional, real property, and intellectual property attorneys have in-depth experience negotiating and drafting a wide range of legal documents relating to business, employment, real property, copyrights, trademarks, and estates and trusts. Our litigators have successfully represented clients in complex litigation and arbitrations involving contract disputes, copyright and trademark infringement, software piracy, unfair business practices, wrongful termination, and employment discrimination, antitrust and trade regulation, securities matters, insurance claims, product liability, creditors’ rights, and contested wills. Our attorneys strive not only to develop a high level of expertise in their areas of specialization, but also to bring a business and practical perspective to each matter. We seek to be both counselors and problem-solvers, trying to help our clients avoid legal problems and vigorously representing their interest when problems arise.

Areas of Practice

• Business and Corporate
• Employment and Labor
• Immigration & Nationality
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Real Estate
• Trusts and Estate Planning

Representative Clients

• Associated Claims Management, Incorporated
• Autodesk, Incorporated
• C & B Consulting Group, Actuaries & Consultants
• Clark Equipment Credit Corporation
• Albertson's, Inc.
• Animation Mentor
• Business Software Alliance
• Conrad Shades
• Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Electronic Arts Inc.
• Entertainment Software Association
• Financial Navigator Int'l
• Hancock Fabrics, Inc.
• Intuit Inc.
• Jacuzzi Brands, Inc.
• Jerry Garcia Family LLC
• Johnson Propeller Co., Inc.
• Journey
• Kleinfelder
• Marbres Du Boulonnais
• Microfil Tecnologias de Informacao, S.A.
• Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co.
• Phish
• Prudential California Realty
• Public Storage, Inc.
• Ratdog
• Safeway Inc.
• Santana
• Software & Information Industry Association
• String Cheese Incident
• Summit Medical Center
• Sybase
• Symantec
• Unisys Corporation
• Zap

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Estate Planning, Trusts, Immigration & Naturalization Law, Immigration, Intellectual Property Law, Labor Law, Litigation & Appeals, Real Estate Law