David E. Mastagni

David Emilio Mastagni is a partner with the law firm of Mastagni Holstedt, APC, who focuses on representing public employee unions and their members. His labor and employment law practice includes administrative hearings, pension litigation, writs of mandamus, class actions, and appeals. He is admitted to practice in California, the U.S. District Courts of Southern, Eastern, Northern and Central Districts of California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

David's public safety clients primarily consist of law enforcement, fire fighters and public attorneys. He is an experienced panel attorney for the Peace Officers' Research Association of California (PORAC) Legal Defense Fund and frequently lectures on the CPRA, police reforms, Constitutional rights, collective bargaining, the FLSA, and public employee discipline. He provides legal analysis and testimony on behalf of his law enforcement and fire fighter clients at the California legislature on bills affecting public safety employees.

Since graduating from U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 1999, David has attained the highest Peer Review Rating of AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and was named to Super Lawyers Northern California Rising Stars from 2011-2014 and to Super Lawyers Northern California every year since 2015. He has been named to Top Attorneys in Sacramento by Sacramento Magazine since 2015.*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.