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title: Donna Bader
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![Donna Bader](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Bader-Donna_3406e6dbd3639a19b92e012bcd14e94b.jpg)

# Donna Bader

Donna Bader, a certified appellate specialist, has practiced for over 35 years in Orange County. She and trial attorney Jon Mitchell Jackson were recipients of a 2013 CLAY Award for litigation by California Lawyer magazine. Bader is the author of An Appeal to Reason: 204 Strategic Tools to Help You Win Your Appeal at Trial, which was written to help trial attorneys protect their cases before they reach the appellate stage

### Articles written by this author:

## [Law and Motion Deskbook Trilogy](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-september/law-and-motion-deskbook-trilogy "Law and Motion Deskbook Trilogy")

Quick to read and easy to use. No history or long discussion, but lots of practical forms

[Donna Bader](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/donna-bader-3 "Donna Bader")

[2014 September](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-september)

[![Appealing without a transcript of the trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Bader-thinkstock-117533578_40122cb87daef9b695028b21faf6f673.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-december/appealing-without-a-transcript-of-the-trial "Appealing without a transcript of the trial")

## [Appealing without a transcript of the trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-december/appealing-without-a-transcript-of-the-trial "Appealing without a transcript of the trial")

To appeal without a transcript from a court reporter, an “agreed statement” may be your only course of action

[Donna Bader](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/donna-bader-3 "Donna Bader")

[2014 December](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-december)

## [The Case against the Supreme Court](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-february/the-case-against-the-supreme-court "The Case against the Supreme Court")

The Case against the Supreme Court

[Donna Bader](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/donna-bader-3 "Donna Bader")

[2015 February](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-february)