Carl E. Douglas
| Carl E. Douglas | |
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May 8, 1955 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Carl Edwin Douglas (born May 8, 1955) is an American lawyer specializing in police misconduct cases. He is best known for being one of the defense attorneys in the O. J. Simpson murder case. Douglas completed his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the former managing attorney at the Law Office of Johnnie Cochran Jr, before leaving the firm to start his own firm, The Douglas Law Group, in 1998. The firm is now known as Douglas / Hicks Law. Among Douglas' other high profile clients have been: singer Michael Jackson; actors Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah; and former NFL safety Darren Sharper.
Douglas, being the managing attorney at the Law Office of Johnnie Cochran Jr, was known in many law circles as one of Cochran's top attorneys. Douglas was viewed as Cochran's lead co-counsel, being involved with Cochran cases representing rappers Tupac Shakur and Sean "Puffy" Combs; as well as Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges. Within a year after leaving the Cochran firm, Douglas was one of the lawyers in the biggest verdict of 1999 in the case of Patricia Anderson vs. General Motors. In the verdict, General Motors was ordered to pay a record price of $4.9 billion for damages when two women and four children were trapped inside a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu and the gas tank exploded on Christmas Eve of 1993. At the time, experts said it was the largest verdict for a personal injury case in history. In 1994, and again in 1999, he was honored as the "Loren Miller Lawyer of the Year" by the John M. Langston Bar Association. In 2007, he was honored as the Consumer Attorneys' Association of Los Angeles "Trial Lawyer of the Year". He now has an office in Beverly Hills, California.
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