Doug Brown is a trial attorney with a broad range of experience spanning civil litigation and criminal prosecution. Since joining Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini LLP, then Chapin Wheeler LLP, as an associate in 2008, Doug has worked on consumer class actions, business disputes, and individual lawsuits, litigating claims including fraud, breach of contract, negligence, defamation, conversion, conspiracy, quiet title, wrongful death, infliction of emotional distress, unfair competition, legal malpractice, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, and employment discrimination. In this capacity, he has appeared in federal and state courts throughout California for motion hearings, settlement conferences, and trial.
Before joining the firm, Doug served as an Assistant United States Attorney ("AUSA") at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. As an AUSA, Doug tried approximately 20 criminal trials to verdict, including four jury trials, while serving in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence and Felony Trial units. Between August 2006 and August 2007, Doug clerked for the Honorable David O. Carter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, working on civil matters implicating countless aspects of federal civil procedure and substantive California state and federal law. Doug attended law school at New York University. There he developed his litigation skills through the school's clinical offerings, performing clinical work under legendary appellate and trial litigator Anthony G. Amsterdam and at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Before going to law school, Doug was a computer scientist who worked for three years at renowned R&D organization BBN Technologies and pursued graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego under the tutelage of Prof. Stefan Savage. He received the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship at Duke University, where he majored in computer science, rowed on the Duke crew team, and enjoyed the opportunity to study Shakespeare for a summer at Oxford University.
When he isn't lawyering, Doug enjoys ultimate disc, disc golf, and disc jockeying. He has travelled extensively throughout Korea and is learning conversational Korean.
