John G. Douglass
Esquire

John Douglass is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, where he is director of a program in lawyering skills and trial advocacy. He received the University’s Distinguished Educator Award in 1999. Professor Douglass is certified as a mediator by the Supreme Court of Virginia and serves as a mediator and arbitrator of commercial disputes through The McCammon Group.

Professor Douglass teaches in a variety of programs of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, on topics including fact investigation, oral advocacy, pretrial motions, depositions, trial advocacy and negotiation. He teaches Negotiation and Dispute Resolution for the Management Institute of the University of Richmond, and the Virginia Police Chiefs Foundation. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar - Virginia Bar Association Joint Committee on Dispute Resolution, a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar’s Course in Professionalism, and a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programs around the state.

Before joining the University of Richmond faculty in 1996, he practiced law for 15 years. As a partner in a Richmond law firm, he specialized in commercial litigation, insurance defense, construction litigation and white collar criminal defense. He served for eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore and Richmond, and served on the staff of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the Iran-Contra investigation. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.