Doug is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School and Brown University. He is a transactional lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in commercial financing, intellectual property, business, real estate and environmental matters. He has been a guest lecturer on real estate and mortgage law at Vermont Law School and at numerous seminars for lawyers, bankers, and accountants in New England.

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Doug co-authored Estate Planning for the Family with a Disabled Child, (14 Vermont Law Review 529, 1990) and The Handicapped Child: Estate Planning and Government Assistance, (16 the Vermont Bar Journal 13, 1990). He also co-authored an extensive revision of Foreclosure and Repossession in Vermont, the standard reference manual on Vermont mortgage foreclosures.

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Doug’s intellectual-property practice includes the representation of performers, authors, and trademark owners. He has prosecuted numerous trademark registrations before the United States Patent Office. Doug was a member for two years of the staff of Green Linnet Records, a Connecticut-based independent record producer, and maintains close ties to the music business. He is also a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the Vermont Bar Association. He assists some of Vermont’s most prominent businesses in the maintenance of their trademark portfolios.

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Doug frequently represents business interests and conservation interests in land-use cases before administrative panels and courts. He is a past executive committee member, state chairman, and national delegate from Vermont of the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club. He was a member of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee to the Chittenden Solid Waste District.

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Doug is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed merchant-marine captain. He has represented lenders and borrowers in complex commercial marine financing transactions. He is also director of the Vermont Flight Academy, an accredited aviation-technology college based at Burlington International Airport.