Education
Douglas completed his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and earned his Juris Doctor (Juris Doctor) degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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He is best known for being one of the defense attorneys in the O.J. Simpson murder case. He is the former managing attorney at the Law Office of Johnnie Cochran Junior, before leaving the firm to start his own firm, The Douglas Law Group, in 1998. Among Douglas" other high profile clients have been: singer Michael Jackson.
Actors Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah.
And former NFL safety Darren Sharper. Douglas, being the managing attorney at the Law Office of Johnnie Cochran Junior, was known in many law circles as one of Cochran"s top attorneys.
Douglas was viewed as Cochran"s lead co-counsel, being involved with Cochran cases representing rappers Tupac Shakur and Sean "Puffy" Combs. As well as Diff"rent Strokes star Todd Bridges.
Within a year after leaving the Cochran firm, Douglas was one of the lawyers in the biggest verdict of 1999 in the case of Patricia Anderson versus
General Motors. At the time, experts said it was the largest verdict for a personal injury case in history. In 1994, and again in 1999, he was honored as the "Loren Miller Lawyer of the Year" by the John M. Langston Bar Association.
In 2007, he was honored as the Consumer Attorneys" Association of Los Angeles "Trial Lawyer of the Year".
He now has an office in Beverly Hills, California. In March 2008, Douglas filed a lawsuit in excess of $10 million against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department for the shooting death of Maurice Cox, an unarmed motorist, who was driving in South Los Los Angeles Most of the shooting was captured on video by Alex A. Alonso, a film maker who posted the footage on www.streetgangs.com the same night. On February 12, 2009, it was reported that Douglas and Elgin Baylor would be suing the Los Angeles Clippers and the National Basketball Association, alleging race and age discrimination issues in the Clippers franchise.
