Richard E. Donahoo

Richard E. Donahoo is the founder of Donahoo & Associates in Orange County, California. Mr. Donahoo specializes in labor and employment law, personal injury, class action, and construction litigation. He focuses on cases involving labor and employment disputes, catastrophic personal injury cases and financial frauds. Donahoo leads a team of experienced attorneys that routinely takes on large corporations and government entities whose wrongdoing causes damages and injuries, holding them accountable. Mr. Donahoo has litigated cases on behalf of hundreds of clients and won significant recoveries for clients in both settlements and verdicts. For a sample of cases see Case Results. Mr. Donahoo is admitted to practice in all California state courts and in the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California. He is also admitted to practice in Colorado federal courts and before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Donahoo is a member of the Los Angeles County and Orange County Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA), Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA). Prior to forming Donahoo & Associates, Donahoo was an associate at the law firm of Horton Barbaro & Reilly in Santa Ana, California. Every year since 2007, Mr. Donahoo has been recognized as a Top 100 California Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers. Recently, Mr. Donahoo was named a Southern California SuperLawyer for the sixth time (2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009). Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Richard E. Donahoo included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Top 100 California Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association, 2007 - 2011 Southern California SuperLawyer, 2009 - 2013 Southern California SuperLawyer, 2015 - Present Other Sources of Feedback About Richard E. Donahoo Included on the 2026Southern California Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2024 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2023 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2018 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2016 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2015 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2013 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2012 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2011 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2010 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2009 Southern California Super Lawyers list

• Founder

• Horton Barbaro & Reilly in Santa Ana, California, Associate

• California
• Colorado
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. Supreme Court

• Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member)
• Orange County Bar Association (Member)
• Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• Consumer Attorneys of California (Member)
• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (Member)