Still Here. Still Winning.

I heard I retired.

That's news to me, and I imagine it's news to the trial teams I've been sitting with in war rooms from coast to coast lately. Somewhere along the way, a story got told that I hung it up, packed the research binders in a box, took my psychology degree home, and rode off into the sunset. Sorry to disappoint whoever started that rumor!

Here's the truth: I've spent forty years doing the same thing I did last month, and the months and years before that. I sit in small rooms with strangers, listening to what they say and, more importantly, what they mean. Building narratives that give a jury a reason to do what your client needs them to do. Telling lead counsel, gently or not so gently, that the verdict form doesn't matter nearly as much as they think it does. The demand for our seasoned expertise hasn’t changed, and neither has my desire to meet that demand.

Forty Years Doesn't Just Retire Quietly

I built this firm on a simple premise: combine what people say with what the data say, and you'll understand a case better than anyone else in the room. I learned that by watching kids draw pictures in a clinical psychology office before I ever set foot in a courtroom. It's the same skill I used to help write the narrative for the first defense verdict in East Texas patent history. It's the same skill I used last year, in a courtroom I won't name, on a case I won't describe, that ended exactly the way we said it would.

I'm not slowing down because the work hasn't gotten any less interesting. If anything, it's gotten more interesting. The cases are bigger, the stakes are higher, and the jury pools are, somehow, always full of people who surprise me. Forty years in, and I still don't know exactly what's going to happen when 8 strangers walk into a room to decide someone's future. That's the whole reason this job still exists, and it's why I’m so proud to still be doing it.

Where I've Actually Been

I’ve been in Delaware, the Eastern District of Texas, Boston, San Jose, or somewhere in between. The usual haunts of anyone doing serious IP work in this country. I've been building narratives, running research, and occasionally eating gas station cheeseburgers in towns most litigators couldn't find on a map, because that's where the venue is, and the venue matters more than people think.

What I hadn’t been doing was marketing. Forty years of decent, discreet, word-of-mouth business meant I never had to explain myself to anyone. Turns out that silence gets misread as absence. Lesson learned! Hence, this blog, a new website, and a new logo to breathe life and awareness back into the legacy of Douglas Green Associates.

The Part Where I Ask You to Actually Talk to Me

If you're a client I've worked with for a decade, and you haven't heard from me in a while, that's not a sign of anything except my own bad habit of assuming you already knew I'd never go off the grid without telling you. Feel free to call or email me and tell me what you're working on. I'd like to hear about it, and I promise the rumor of my retirement did not come with a corresponding rumor of me getting more boring.

If you're a next-gen litigator who inherited a relationship with DGA and never quite knew what to do with it, or even if you’re someone at a firm who's never worked with us at all, now's a fine time to start. We're still taking on the cases that matter most: bet-the-company litigation, high-stakes IP disputes, the kind of trials where the narrative has to be right the first time because there isn't a second one. We still build every recommendation on research and four decades of seeing what actually happens in trial. And we still believe your greatest success will come from bringing us in early, not when you are looking at a looming trial date.

So, in short, I’m not retired, and you can ask my wife; I’m definitely not slowing down. I’m still listening, still researching, and still winning!

Reach out to us today and let's talk about your case.