Sacramento White Collar Criminal Defense Attorney

Donald H. Heller, A Law Corporation
Sacramento White Collar Criminal Defense Attorney

BACKGROUND

Donald H. Heller

Active member of the New York State Bar since 1969 and the California Bar since 1973. Admitted to practice before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California.

Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office (1969-1973); Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California (1973 to 1977).

Special Prosecutor in both the State and Federal Courts on four occasions.

Private practice since 1977. Mr. Heller has tried to verdict complex civil and criminal cases in both the state and federal courts, including but not limited to murder, mail and wire fraud, tax evasion, breach of contract, securities fraud and a variety of product liability and personal injury cases.

Mediator and Arbitrator in Sacramento County since 1995 of several hundred civil cases.
Judge Pro Tem of the Sacramento County Superior Court since 1986.

Master of the Bench of the Anthony M. Kennedy, American Inn of Court in Sacramento since 2001.

Listed in Best Lawyers in America in the specialties of Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense and White-Collar Criminal Defense.

“Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. Because no fee or purchase is required, being listed in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Our annual, advertisement-free publication has been described in The American Lawyer as ‘the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.’”

Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Sacramento Valley Chapter, a distinguished national organization comprised of the most skilled and experienced trial lawyers in the United States. ABOTA is an organization that invites its members to join after an internal nominating process and vote of the local chapter and requires at a minimum twenty trials to verdict in the state and/or federal courts and a proven reputation for competence, civility and ethics.

Mr. Heller is and has continuously been rated AV by Martindale & Hubbell, a peer review assessment of professional competence and integrity.

Education

BA Queens College, Flushing, N.Y. (1966).
JD Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1969).

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