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.

Work for Clients

Ms. Douglass has represented clients in all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation counseling and a wide variety of trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts across the country. She has also represented corporate and individual clients in other complex commercial litigation matters, including breach of fiduciary duty claims, merger and acquisition disputes, intellectual property and patent suits, bankruptcy, and insurance risk and coverage matters.

Professional Activities

Ms. Douglass is a member of the Boston and New York Bar Associations. In 2007, she was recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer “Rising Star” by Law & Politics and Boston magazine.

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.

Publications/Presentations

While in law school, Ms. Douglass 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).

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.

Education

J.D., Fordham University Law School, 2000 (cum laude, Order of the Coif)
B.A., Middlebury College, 1995 (cum laude)