Shane McDonald

Shane McDonald is an experienced attorney whose areas of practice include Business Litigation, Construction Litigation, and Criminal Defense .  Shane has been a licensed attorney in the State of Florida since 2008.

Shane was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  Shane attended Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor Michigan.  While there he was a research assistant to Dean Bernard Dobranski.  After three years of living in Ann Arbor, Shane  moved to Southwest Florida in 2008 to be closer to his parents.

In 2009, Shane joined Ave Maria School of Law as a Reference Law Librarian, where he lectured for first year law students on numerous legal research topics, including state and federal legislative history research, federal regulations research, legal treatises and secondary sources, case law, and numerous other topics.  

Prior to joining Willis and Davidow, Shane was the managing attorney of the Fort Myers Division of the State of Florida’s Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel for the Second District.  During his six years there, Shane represented hundreds of indigent clients.  He represented clients with charges ranging from traffic violations to complex and serious first degree felonies.  Shane was assigned to numerous criminal divisions during his time with the Regional Counsel’s Office including misdemeanor, juvenile, felony, and post-conviction units.   His managerial duties included training new entry-level attorneys in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions of the office.

He returned to Ave Maria School of Law as a guest lecturer on several occasions from 2015 to 2018 for an upper level course entitled Florida Criminal Law, where he gave lectures to upper-level students on topics such as pre-trial motion practice and criminal appellate practice.