Doug led the advertising industry’s legal team in the transformative media transparency investigation in 2016 that rocked the foundation of the industry. Under his, Keri Bruce’s and Nick Swimer’s leadership, our firm continues to chart new territory as the world’s leading firm representing the interests of brands in media buying. He and the Reed Smith team have negotiated dozens of media buying contracts worth billions of dollars making our firm the world’s leading experts on the topic. Doug also has considerable experience in e-tailing, NFTs, programmatic buying, and more. He is noted for his experience in intellectual property issues that arise in connection with marketing brands, including false and deceptive advertising, copyright and trademark licensing and infringement, and the growing global concerns relating to privacy and data security under the U.S law and European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Doug has been adjunct professor of advertising law at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and the University College Cork in Ireland.

He is the author of eight award winning books: Please be AdVised: A Legal Reference Guide for the Advertising Executive, a trade book described by a leading advertising executive as the “bible of the industry"; 101 Things I Want to Say … The Collection, a book of parental advice; Presidential Intentions, Presidential Declarations, and Presidential Conclusions, a trilogy of novels of historical fiction; a memoir entitled Asshole Attorney: Musings, Memories and Missteps in a Forty-Year Career, winner of the 2019 Independent Press award for best humor, Dark Data: Control, Alt, Delete, a thriller about the dystopian consequences of social media and winner of the 2020 Independent Press award for best political thriller, and Dragon on the Far Side of the Moon, a fictional look into what the future may hold if China colonizes the Moon. His newest novel, Blood on the Bayou, was released in April 2022.

According to legal directories, Doug is described by his clients as smart, direct, efficient, and great to deal with.