Bakersfield, Calif.—The Law Offices of Young Wooldridge LLP has expanded its business and water law departments naming two new associates to handle the workload in those areas.

Alan F. Doud specializes in water, environmental, business, franchise, and municipal law as well as public agency law and will handle cases in those areas. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., where he graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Following graduation, Doud worked as a legislative assistant to Congressman George Radanovich.  In 2006 he received his juris doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he earned the highest mark in law and economics. While in law school, Doud worked full-time in the legal department of one of the nation’s largest franchise companies.

Scott McDonald specializes in business litigation and transactions, real estate, land use, and contracts law. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a minor in Spanish, from California State University of Fullerton in May 2005 and his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2008.  McDonald is fluent in Spanish and holds a certificate from the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution.

About Young Wooldridge:
The Law Offices of Young Wooldridge LLP, founded in 1939, is a full-service law firm representing business and corporate clients, public agencies and individuals, in a wide range of legal matters. The firm provides legal services in the areas of personal injury, catastrophic brain injuries, wrongful death, defective products, estate planning, business and business transactions, employment law, oil and gas law, insurance disputes, agriculture and water law, and condemnation and eminent domain. A Group Legal Services program serves more than 350,000 credit union members throughout Kern County. A Family Law Mediation Center helps guide disputing parties towards resolution in a process that can save them money and is less stressful than courtroom proceedings.