Practical, real world experience.

About Us

Overview of DLG

Douglass Law Group is a leading California law firm representing clients in connection with complex construction projects, commercial business disputes, and civil litigation. Clients seek our dynamic intellect and imaginative legal solutions. We are headquartered in Mill Valley, but also work out of client’s offices as a part of our part-time General Counsel program that caters primarily to our contractor clients.

DLG’s entrepreneurial spirit and nimble responsiveness to our client’s needs is our hallmark. From project development and complex transactional expertise to trial prowess in high-stakes civil litigation, DLG’s clients rely on and appreciate our fierce focus on client service and high-quality work.

DLG’s Client-Centric Approach

We connect on a personal level with all of our clients, big and small. We have successfully fused the quality and experience of large firms with the personal attention and flexibility associated with a small firm. DLG views its clients as long-term partners and strives to build deep relationships with its clients to help them pursue and realize their strategic business goals.

Partnering with our clients is ingrained in our ethos and sometimes includes literally becoming part of their in-house team. Indeed, as a part of DLG’s part-time General Counsel Program, we embed ourselves in our client’s offices to gain an insider’s view of the client’s business and to develop an understanding of the client’s unique risk tolerances. Based on this insider’s depth of knowledge, we are able to offer real-time input that better positions our clients to exploit opportunities and to better defend against potential liabilities when they present themselves.

Our Practice Areas

General Construction Legal Advice

Scott Douglass focuses primarily on construction law, commercial business disputes, and civil litigation. He has an extensive background in engineering and construction, and uses this experience and a pragmatic, problem-solving approach in a variety of cases. In the context of construction, he represents developers, owners, general contractors, and subcontractors in connection with private, public, and public-private-partnership (P3) construction projects.

Practice Areas

B. Scott Douglass – Principal

Scott Douglass focuses on construction law and business litigation. He has a background in engineering and construction, and uses this experience and a pragmatic, problem-solving approach in a variety of cases representing developers, owners, general contractors, and subcontractors in the context of private, public, and public-private-partnership (P3) construction projects. His practical, real world experience, in combination with the wide breadth of his law practice, enables Mr. Douglass to anticipate and address the many issues that arise during each phase of a construction project. For these reasons, he genuinely enjoys practicing law and appreciates the craftsmanship and collegiality that the construction law practice area affords.

Prior to forming DLG, Mr. Douglass was a long-time partner in the Construction Practice Group of a top-tier law firm based in San Francisco. Previously, Mr. Douglass had been an associate attorney practicing construction law at what was then the world’s largest law firm at the firm’s worldwide headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Further, before attending law school and graduating magna cum laude, Mr. Douglass graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering, and practiced as a geotechnical engineering at a major international engineering and construction consulting firm.

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