Hadara R. Stanton

Hadara is strategic and thoughtful advisor to nonprofit organizations, including private schools and institutions of higher education, and public entities, including public education clients.  Her experience includes supporting clients on a range of issues relating to governance, education, addressing crises and conflicts, as well as labor and employment matters.

Hadara regularly trains boards and agencies on a variety of topics, including: Generational Diversity and Succession Planning; Preventing Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation; Recognizing, Addressing and Preventing Bias; Ethics in Public Service and Conflict of Interest; as well as Brown Act compliance.

Hadara has extensive public sector experience, having served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office before joining LCW’s San Francisco office.  In that capacity, Hadara represented state health, education and social service agencies in litigation in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. Her oral and written advocacy skills in the California Courts of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals resulted in a number of published decisions of first impression.

In addition, Hadara has extensive experience volunteering with nonprofit organizations. Her service includes key leadership positions on boards of directors, including twice as Board President.  These organizations benefited from her time and her talents in providing advice, analysis, support and strategic direction.   Before law school, Hadara volunteered for a year overseas with a nonprofit organization.

Hadara currently serves as Co-Chair to LCW’s AI Working Group and is a 2023 alum of Coro Northern California’s Women in Leadership program.