Doug focuses his practice on business litigation, representing business clients in a variety of shareholder, banking, trust and estate, products liability, and commercial litigation matters. In October 2005, he was named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
An active leader in the community and bar, Doug lectures regularly on litigation and professional responsibility topics. Chambers and Partners' 2017 Chambers USA Client Guide describes Doug as an "Eminent Practitioner” in the Commercial Litigation category, and noted that “sources name him a ‘world-class lawyer.’” Doug became General Counsel of McGuireWoods in July 2013.
Multiple commercial litigation matters in the North Carolina Business Court.
Major product liability matters in federal and state court.
Complex trust and estate litigation matters.
Representations of special litigation committees of the boards of directors of financial services companies in connection with investigations of allegations of wrongdoing in shareholder derivative actions.
Representation of a collegiate athletic conference and a prominent national liberal arts college in a range of regulatory, education, faculty and student matters.
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Member; Lawyers for an Educated Work Force Task Force, 2012-2013; Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-2012; Board of Governors, 2002-2005, North Carolina Bar Association
Permanent Member, Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
Trustee, The Crosland Foundation, 2009-2018
Board of Visitors, Davidson College, 2008-2016
Steering Committee, Access to Justice Council, 2012
Co-chair, Parents' Council, Sewanee: The University of the South, 2009-2010
Member, U.S. Magistrate Selection Panel, U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 2008
Chair, Large Law Firm Committee, Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont, Access to Justice Campaign, 2007-2008
Co-chair, Mecklenburg County Courthouse Opening Celebration Committee, 2007
Vestry, 2004-2006; Senior Warden, 2006, Christ Episcopal Church
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Named to "Leaders in the Law," North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, 2019
Named the "Charlotte Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants" Lawyer of the Year, The Best Lawyers, 2019
Named the "Lawyer of the Year," Bet-the-Company Litigation, The Best Lawyers, 2018
Named "Lawyer of the Year," Litigation-Banking and Finance, Charlotte, The Best Lawyers, 2015, 2017
Named a "Local Litigation Star," North Carolina, Benchmark Litigation, 2013, 2018
Named the "Charlotte Mass Tort Litigation Lawyer of the Year," The Best Lawyers, 2012
Named the "Charlotte Product Liability Litigator of the Year," The Best Lawyers, 2011, 2013
Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Banking & Finance, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, Woodward/White, Inc., 2005-2020
Named to "Legal Elite," Litigation, Business North Carolina, 2008-2014
Selected for inclusion in America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: General Commercial, North Carolina, Chambers USA, 2007-2019; Named "Eminent Practitioner," 2016-2017
Named to “North Carolina Super Lawyers,” Business Litigation, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2006-2019
AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell