Carl Edwin Douglas (born May 8, 1955) is an American lawyer specializing in police abuse cases. He is famous for being one of the defense attorneys in the murder case of O. J. Simpson, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team". He was a lawyer at the Law Firm Johnnie Cochran Jr., before leaving the company to start his own company, The Douglas Law Group, in 1998. The latter company is now known as Douglas/Hicks Law. Other notable clients include: Michael Jackson, actor Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah, and former NFL safety Darren Sharper.
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Education
Douglas holds a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Careers
Douglas, a management lawyer at the Law Office of Johnnie Cochran Jr., is known to many in the law as one of Cochran's top lawyers. Douglas, who is seen as Cochran's main advisor, is involved with the Cochran case which represents rapper Tupac Shakur and Sean "Puffy" Combs, as well as Diff'rent Strokes star Todd Bridges. Within a year after leaving the Cochran company, Douglas was one of the biggest lawyers in 1999, in the case of Patricia Anderson vs. General Motors . In the ruling, General Motors was ordered to pay a record price of $ 4.9 billion for damages when two women and four children were trapped inside the 1979 Chevrolet Malibu, and the gas tank exploded on Christmas Eve 1993. At that time, experts said it was a verdict the greatest for personal injury cases in history.
In March 2008, Douglas filed a lawsuit of more than $ 10 million against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department over the death of the shooting of Maurice Cox, an unarmed motorist, who was driving in South LA. Most of the shootings were recorded in the video by Alex A. Alonso, a filmmaker who posted the footage on www.streetgangs.com that same night.
On February 12, 2009, it was reported that Douglas would represent Elgin Baylor in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Clippers, various executives and the NBA, accusing racial discrimination and age issues in the Clippers franchise. The lawsuit was unsuccessful; the amount of racial discrimination voluntarily dismissed, and the jury unanimously decided that the defendant was on the other.
Douglas now has offices in Beverly Hills, California.
Hearing recognition
- In 1994, and again in 1999, he was honored as "Loren Miller of the Year" Lawyer by John M. Langston Bar Association.
- In 2007, he was honored as the Consumer Lawyers 'Los Trial Lawyer of the Year'. He now has an office in Beverly Hills, California.
References
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