Personal Injury Attorney in New York, NY: Preston J. Douglas
Counsel to the firm
Preston J. Douglas holds bachelor’s degree in biology from Tufts University, in 1968, and a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School, J.D. 1974. From September 1968 until June 1974 he taught high school science in the Herricks School System in New Hyde Park, Long Island. During that time, he did advanced study in mathematics and thermodynamics. In the latter four years of teaching, he attended law school at night. He was admitted to practice in New York courts in 1975 and in Florida in 1976. He was admitted to practice in the United States District Courts of the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Claims Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has successfully argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Douglas was co-chair of the Medical Malpractice Section of the American Academy of Trial Lawyers of New York. He is a past editor-in-chief of the New York Trial Lawyers Quarterly. He is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Florida Bar.
In his fifty year career, Mr. Douglas has represented over 100 children who have sustained birth injuries, and has tried birth trauma cases in New York and as a guest trial counsel (pro hoc vice) in Wisconsin, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. He has a special interest and has published on cases involving birth trauma, particularly Erbs Palsy.
Mr. Douglas has been selected as a New York Super Lawyer every year since 2008 and is listed in Best Lawyers in New York and Best Law Firms, New York.
Mr. Douglas holds an amateur radio Extra class license (call WJ2V).
