Doug is an accomplished advocate who, during almost twenty years of practice, has served as lead counsel in hundreds of civil appeals covering a broad spectrum of issues of negligence, insurance coverage, property damage, punitive damages, and trial procedures. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, New York, and the District of Colombia, in addition to various federal appellate courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits.

Doug holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 1982 graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Review. He formerly served as a law clerk to the Honorable Peter Palermo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught courses in legal research and writing. Doug serves on The Florida Bar's Appellate Rules Committee and has lectured for numerous institutions on the subjects of appellate litigation and insurance coverage law. Doug has donated his time to the Guardian Ad Litem Child Appeals Project and, as a third degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, instructs children and adults in the martial arts.