Alison Douglass is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department and a member of its Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement Practice. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, primarily in the areas of securities and ERISA law, as well as criminal defense and government investigations work.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ms. Douglass is a member of the Boston and New York Bar Associations.
In addition, Ms. Douglass has extensive pro bono experience. She works with the New England Innocence Project representing incarcerated individuals in their pursuit of post-conviction exoneration through DNA, and has served as a Committee for Public Counsel Services Bar Advocate representing indigent criminal defendants.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2005, Ms. Douglass was an associate in the Litigation Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Ms. Douglass is admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and New York, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
RECOGNITION
In 2007, Ms. Douglass was recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer “Rising Star” by Law & Politics and Boston magazine. While in law school, she was an associate notes and article editor for the Fordham Urban Law Journal for which she authored “The Criminalization of Child Welfare in New York City: Sparing the Child or Spoiling the Family?” 27 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1053 (2000).