California, Corona Del Mar, Douglas S. Gilliland Attorney At Law

Mr. Gilliland received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He attended law school at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon where was an associate editor of the Oregon Law Review and teaching assistant in Torts. Mr. Gilliland received his Juris Doctorate (law degree) from the University of Oregon in 1990. Mr. Gilliland then studied corporate and securities law at the University of San Diego where he received his Master of Laws degree in 1991. Mr. Gilliland was admitted to practice law before all courts in the State of California in 1991. Mr. Gilliland was admitted to practice law in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California in December 1991, the Eastern District of California in June 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in September 2001 and the United States Supreme Court in May 2002. Mr. Gilliland was granted permission to practice law in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2008 for purposes of the Vioxx mass tort litigation. Mr. Gilliland has had several court of appeal decisions published by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Three and Fourth District, Division One. These decisions are reported at Lee v. FBI, 363 F.3d 931 (9th Cir. 2004) cert. denied, 546 U.S. 1214 (2005); Butler v. San Diego District Attorneys, 370 F.3d 956 (9th Cir. 2004); Duffens v. Valenti International (2008) 161 Cal.App.4th 434; Leonte v. ACS State and Local Solutions, Inc. (2004) 123 Cal.App.4th 521;. The Lee decision has been cited in Federal Court rulings from the Third Circuit (Pennsylvania), Sixth Circuit (Tennessee), Ninth Circuit (by courts in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon); Interpreting Immunity, 7 University of Pennsylvania Constitutional Law Journal 1155 (2005); 2-D Civil Police Liability V; 11-113 California Forms of Pleading and Practice, 113.34 and the United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment, Annotated. The Butler decision has been cited in Federal Court rulings from the First Circuit (Massachusetts) and Ninth Circuit (from courts in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington). Mr. Gilliland is a Life Member in the Million Dollar Advocates forum, Top Trial Lawyers in America. The Forum has members across the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Membership is limited to lawyers that have won awards in excess of a million dollars for clients. Fewer than 1% of attorneys in the United States are members.

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