Doug Brown specializes in defense of workers’ compensation and professional and general liability claims against employers, premises owners, pharmacists, product manufacturers and others in jury trials and non-jury proceedings throughout Alabama and the Southeast. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America in both Workers’ Compensation and Admiralty and Maritime Law for over ten years. A member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute, he has been a speaker at continuing education programs sponsored by bar associations and law schools on topics concerning developments in trial practice, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act. Mr. Brown is one of numerous lawyers in Mobile County who offer their time in pro bono work to the Mobile Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Program to assist low income individuals with their legal needs.
Relevant experience:
Tried more than one hundred cases in state and federal courts in Alabama and before administrative agencies and arbitration panels.
Lead trial counsel representing pharmacies in phen-fen litigation and obtained summary judgment in favor of pharmacists in almost two hundred cases.
Representative Cases:
Herndon v. Rite Aid Corp., 2007 WL 2712978, (S.D. Ala. Sept 14, 2007)
Ex parte Bender Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. v. Walley, 879 So. 2d 577 (Ala. 2003)
(Ala. Sup. Ct. 2003)
Kennedy Engine Co. v. Dog River Marina & Boatworks, Inc., 432 So. 2d 1214 (Ala. 1983)
Born in Miami, Florida March 21, 1947
Education: Auburn University, B.S. 1969
The University of Alabama, M.A. 1972 and J.D. 1975
Honors:
Martindale Hubbell Rating: AV Best Lawyers in America, Admiralty & Maritime and Workers’ Compensation Practices Alabama Super Lawyers Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society, President 1974-1975
Alabama Law Review, Editorial Board 1974, Articles Editor 1975
Law clerk to Hon. Sam C. Pointer, Jr., U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Alabama, 1975 – 1976
Omicron Delta Kappa
Phi Alpha Theta
Bar Admissions:
Alabama, 1975
U.S. District Court for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
U.S. Supreme Court, 1984
Professional Organizations and Associations :
International Association of Defense Counsel
American Bar Association
Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute, Director, 1985 – 1987
Defense Research Institute
Alabama State Bar
Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
Mobile Bar Association Publication and Seminar Speeches:
“Recent Developments in the Longshoremen’s Act”
- Southern Admiralty Law Institute (1983) “Handling Claims Under the Longshoremen’s Act, a Procedural Primer”
- Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute (1988)
“Recent Developments Affecting the Act”
- Loyola Longshore Conference (2004)
