Bryan Donahue

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Bryan grew up in the Willamette Valley–in and around Salem, Oregon. As a child, he visited Bend regularly and like any outdoor loving kid, begged his parents to move to Central Oregon. They didn’t. During college, Bryan earned an athletic scholarship competing as a collegiate track and field athlete. Ultimately, obtaining his undergraduate degree from University of Oregon, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors. Following undergrad, Bryan was accepted to the University of Washington School of Law. However, his path led him to Portland where he later obtained his law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School.

In his 1L law school year, Donahue was honored with the “Best Appellate Brief”. The following year, he served as President of the Student Trial Lawyers Association and was selected to the prestigious Environmental Law Review, one of the top law reviews in the Nation. As a 3L, Donahue served as Managing Editor for the Environmental Law Review’s online publication. Even before graduating law school, Bryan began representing clients in the courtroom and in trial –and he hasn’t slowed down since. Ultimately, after gaining invaluable experience at a law firm in Vancouver, Washington, and a prestigious civil litigation firm in Downtown Portland, Bryan realized his dream by moving to Bend and establishing the Donahue Law Firm’s first office location.

Since becoming an attorney, Donahue has developed expertise practicing everything from civil litigation (both plaintiff and defense side) to Personal Injury, Family Law, Criminal and DUII Defense, and Estate Planning.

Since establishing the Firm’s first office in Bend, Oregon, the Firm has grown, now with two Bend locations, an office in Medford, and a location in Spokane, Washington from which the firm handles select matters primarily in Clark, King, and Spokane Counties. Bryan has been honored with a number of professional achievements and honors, including trial successes few would have imagined possible. As a DUII specialist in the State of Oregon, Bryan has spoken at multiple DUII conferences. As a speaker, he teaches lawyers how to win complex DUII trials, exposing the junk science used by Drug Recognition Evaluators (DREs), and educating attorneys about the inaccuracy of the breath testing equipment including the Intoxilyzer 8000 and the numerous alcohol testing devices utilizing infrared or fuel cell technology, as well as the disingenuous approaches used by the State and prosecutors in supposed controlled substance DUIIs.