A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1985. He is the editor of the second and recently released third edition of the Appellate Practice Handbook published by the Nashville Bar Association. Since 1995, he has been the assistant editor of the Tennessee Tort Law Letter, founded and edited by John A. Day and published by M. Lee Smith Publishers and Printers.

Donald is a past adjunct professor of legal writing at Vanderbilt University Law School, and co-authored with John A. Day the first edition of the Tennessee Law of Comparative Fault. He also served as co-amicus counsel in the two landmark cases of McIntyre v. Balentine (adopting comparative fault) and Jordan v. Baptist Three Rivers Hospital (allowing for loss of consortium damages in wrongful death cases). Donald has an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Nashville Bar Associations, along with the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and is a barrister in the Nashville Chapter of the American Inn of Court. He has served several times as the chair of the appellate practice committee of the Nashville Bar Association.

Donald primarily focuses his practice in the area of appellate practice of all types, both civil and criminal and in federal and state courts.