Current Status:  Active

This member is active and may practice law in California.

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Profile Information

The following information is from the official records of The State Bar of California.

Bar Number:	122462
Address:	Wanland, Burgess & Brenner 705 University Ave Sacramento, CA 95825 Map it	Phone Number:	(916) 921-5597
		Fax Number:	(916) 921-1828
		e-mail:	Not Available
County:	Sacramento	Undergraduate School:	Univ of California Berkeley; Berkeley CA
District:	District 3
Sections:	None	Law School:	Santa Clara Univ SOL; Santa Clara CA

Status History

Effective Date	Status Change
Present	Active
7/10/2012	Active
7/3/2012	Not Eligible To Practice Law
2/18/1986	Admitted to The State Bar of California

Explanation of member status

Actions Affecting Eligibility to Practice Law

Effective Date	Description	Case Number	Resulting Status
Disciplinary and Related Actions Overview of the attorney discipline system.
4/15/2011	Discipline, probation; no actual susp.	08-O-13238
4/5/2002	Discipline, probation; no actual susp.	00-O-11320
Administrative Actions
7/3/2012	Suspended, failed to pay Bar membr. fees		Not Eligible To Practice Law

State Bar Court Cases

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DISCLAIMER: Any posted Notice of Disciplinary Charges, Conviction Transmittal or other initiating document, contains only allegations of professional misconduct. The attorney is presumed to be innocent of any misconduct warranting discipline until the charges have been proven.

Effective Date	Case Number	Description
5/4/2012	08-O-13238	Order re Extension of Time [PDF]
4/15/2011	08-O-13238	Opinion [PDF] [WORD]

California Bar Journal Discipline Summaries

Summaries from the California Bar Journal are based on discipline orders but are not the official records. Not all discipline actions have associated CBJ summaries. Copies of official attorney discipline records are available upon request.

April 15, 2011

DONALD MARTIN WANLAND JR. [#122462], 53, of Sacramento was suspended for 90 days, stayed, placed on one year of probation and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect April 15, 2011.

A State Bar Court hearing judge found that Wanland violated the terms of a 2002 probation, and although the bar delayed filing disciplinary charges, he still deserves a stayed suspension. Wanland argued he did not violate probation and said an actual suspension was too harsh.

In 2002, Wanland received a 30-day stayed suspension and a five-year probation for violating a bankruptcy court order to return a former client’s file. The bankruptcy court ordered him to pay attorneys’ fees and a fine for each day that he failed to produce the file, resulting in a total of $12,603 (the coercive sanction). Later, the court fined him $13,699.12 for contempt (the contempt sanction) when he failed to pay the initial fine.

Although he met his probation obligations, he often was late. He made restitution payments late, filed his ethics school certification late and filed 12 probation reports after the deadline. Nonetheless, there were no consequences until a new probation officer was assigned to his case. After she reviewed the file without a satisfactory response from Wanland, the bar charged him with probation violations.

In mitigation, the bar delayed in charging Wanland and he did complete his probation.