Lusk, Robert P

Donna Low, the Managing Partner of Low McKinley Baleria & Salenko, LLP, received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, magna cum laude, from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978, and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society.  She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1990.  While at McGeorge, Ms. Low distinguished herself as a member of the Trial Advocacy Team, and was a Moot Court Oral Competition finalist.  She was admitted to the bar in California and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, in 1990.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Low was employed as a registered nurse for 15 years, serving for six years as the Nurse Manager of the Coronary Care, Medical Intensive and Transitional Care Units at a major medical center.  This experience has been invaluable in her role as an attorney, allowing her to evaluate and defend medical-legal cases from a uniquely knowledgeable perspective.

Since her admission to the bar, Ms. Low has defended hundreds of medical-legal cases in nearly every area of clinical practice, including cardiology, cardiac surgery, family practice, anesthesia, plastic surgery, obstetrics, internal medicine, infectious disease and elder neglect/abuse.  She has tried numerous cases to verdict before a jury, including cases of catastrophic loss, obtaining consistently successful results.

Ms. Low is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, a rating bestowed on those attorneys who have been rated by their peers as achieving the highest level of professional excellence and ethical standards.  Since 2009, Ms. Low has been listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.  Ms. Low is also listed in the Lexis Nexis Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers.  In 2012, she was invited to become a member of the California Medical Legal Committee, which is limited to seventy attorneys in Northern and Southern California.  Ms. Low was also inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Council of America, an invitation only trial lawyer honorary society.

Ms. Low has lectured and published on a broad range of subjects in the medical legal context.  She has presented programs to physicians on behalf of the Accreditation Counsel for Continuing Medical Education and has presented programs to other attorneys on behalf of Continuing Education of the State Bar, including California Civil Procedure and Trial Practice.  Ms. Low has presented programs to staff of acute care hospitals and long term care facilities on issues ranging from effective communication, patient hand offs, documentation and risk management strategies.