Experienced Attorneys and Lawyers
serving Sacramento and Northern California

Robert C. Bowman Jr.

Sacramento Attorney Robert C. Bowman, Jr. practices primarily employment law, family law, business and real estate law, utilizing his extensive experience in business, family and human resources to provide practical advice to his clients.

Mr. Bowman’s path to founder of Sacramento’s comprehensive law firm Bowman and Associates, APC. represents his style of business and life; “Success does not come to you, you have to go out and get it.” In law and in business, Robert has not waited for success, but gone out to get it.

Besides his over thirty years in the nationwide retail industry, both in management and in human resources, Robert has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. This spirit has included ownership of senior care facilities, a beauty shop, a vending business, a landscaping business and a railroad crossing business.

David P. Foos

Attorney David Foos is a former California Superior Court Commissioner, Sacramento traffic court judge, public defender, and Legal Aid lawyer who has returned to the practice of law after nearly two decades on the bench.

After receiving his masters at UC Berkeley, David Foos attended the UC Hastings College of Law. Hastings is California’s first public law school having been established in 1878 by California’s first Chief Justice. It was not Hastings history that attracted Foos; it was the Over Sixty-Five Club.

Hastings had gathered a group of eminent jurists and scholars from the nation’s top law schools, many had been involuntarily retired at age 65. The Hastings Sixty-Five Club helped give Hastings one of the most distinguished faculties of any American law school.

Kara Keister

Since joining the Law Office of Bowman & Associates, APC, Kara Keister devotes her primary areas of practice to representing individuals in cases involving wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, and hostile work environments. Ms. Keister has experience in employment and civil litigation in state and federal court.

Ms. Keister also focuses on estate planning including drafting of wills and trusts and other important documents, and advising individuals and families. She also assists individuals with probate and trust administration.

Ms. Keister received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law with a concentration in Taxation. Ms. Keister has been admitted to practice before all courts of the State of California along with the United States District Court, Eastern District.

Sean Gavin

Mr. Gavin is an attorney with the Law Office of Bowman & Associates, APC. He concentrates his practice in employment law, focusing on employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Prior to joining Bowman & Associates, Mr. Gavin worked for the City of Boston’s Living Wage Division, where he was responsible for redrafting the City’s Living Wage Regulations.

In addition to handling employment law, Mr. Gavin is a civil litigator with a portfolio of cases that includes matters of construction law, landlord/tenant law, real estate law, and contract law. He received his B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Southern California and earned his Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law.

Chris Phillips

After graduating from University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2007, Mr. Phillips joined Bowman & Associates as a Law Clerk for Robert C. Bowman Jr. Mr. Phillips became an attorney in 2008 and now dedicates the majority of his practice to the areas of Employment Law, Bankruptcy and Landlord Tennant disputes.

Mr. Phillips oversees a wide variety of cases that include representing plaintiffs for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, representing petitioners and creditors for Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies, and both landlords and tenants.

Prior to Law School, Mr. Phillips graduated from Texas Tech University where he was a starting pitcher for the Red Raider baseball team and received a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sport Science.

Mr. Phillips dedicates all of his free time to his beautiful wife Meghan and the newest addition to the Phillips family, baby Delaney.

John A. Long

Mr. Long is an attorney with the Folsom office of Bowman & Associates. John A. Long concentrates his practice on bankruptcy, consumer protection, employment, and wills and trusts.

Mr. Long graduated from Boston College with a degree in Business Management and then went on to work in finance for a large telecommunications corporation. Mr. Long earned his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law…

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