DOUGLAS L. BROWN
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, Mr. Brown 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. He 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.
During his 39 years of the practice of law, Mr. Brown has tried more than one hundred cases in state and federal courts in Alabama, before administrative agencies and arbitration panels, and is a frequent mediator for longshore and workers' compensation claims. He also was the lead trial counsel representing pharmacies in phen-fen litigation, obtaining a summary judgment in favor of pharmacists in almost two hundred cases. Representative Cases: Deborah Herndon v. Rite Aid Corporation, et al, 2007 WL 2712978 (S.D. Ala) (Ala. 2007) Ex parte Bender Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. v. Walley, 879 So. 2d 577 (Ala. 2003) (Ala. Sup. Ct. 2003) Acceptance Insurance Co. V. Brown, 832 So. 2d 1 (Ala. 2001) Kennedy Engine Co. v. Dog River Marina & Boatworks, Inc., 432 So. 2d 1214 (Ala. 1983) |
Education:
Auburn University, B.S. 1969 The University of Alabama, M.A. in History 1972 and J.D. 1975 Honors: Ramsey Scholar - History Omicron Delta Kappa 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 Best Lawyers in America, Admiralty & Maritime and Workers’ Compensation Practices Martindale Hubbell AV Rating Alabama Super Lawyers Faculty Member of IADC Trial Academy 2013, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA Mobile's Best Workman's Comp Lawyer 2015 Bar Admissions: Alabama, 1975 U.S. District Court for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits U.S. Supreme Court, 1984 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) |
