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Doug Stevens, Esquire
Licensed in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C.
Doug is a graduate of Harvard
and Georgetown. He has been an attorney since 1979, and has been
admitted to practice in five states, four by exam, as well as the federal
courts of D.C., Maryland and Virginia, and the Supreme Court of the United
States.
He has tried hundreds of cases
and has handled litigation before the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals. He has also argued before the Virginia Supreme Court.
Doug was born in London, England,
and attended Plandome Road Elementary School and Manhasset Junior High
School in Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Growing up, he was an avid
football, baseball and tuba player, and was active in the Liberal Religious Youth group (LRY) of the Unitarian-Universalist Society, serving as a counselor at Camp Homestead in Brewster, New York. He knows the meaning
of more Bob Dylan lyrics than any living person, including Mr. Dylan.
He attended George School,
a Quaker boarding school outside of Philadelphia, where a generous grading
system and a skillful local sports photographer contributed to his being
named a national scholar-athlete.
At Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Independent, performed in the Experimental Theatre, and was the thirty-seventh midfielder on the lacrosse team. He studied film-making, astronomy with a major in Social Studies(!)
During time off from college,
he was a teacher in Gulale, Ethiopia, made jam in Tanzania, spent time
in Isfahan and Lahore, and visited Vinoba Bhave in India (of Gandhi fame). After college,
Doug wrote legislative mail (on a robo machine!) for Congressman Stephen
J. Solarz of Brooklyn, N.Y. and was a fundraiser for the presidential
campaign of Congressman Morris Udall.
While at Georgetown Law, Doug
got a job working for Vice President Mondale's office, and upon graduation
was named Assistant Counsel to the Carter-Mondale Re-Election Committee,
an enterprise that ran into a wee bit of electoral difficulty caused
by one Ronald Reagan.
During this time, he also was
an associate at Patton, Boggs & Blow in Washington, D.C., and co-authored
materials on federal election law with Tommy Boggs.
Doug then returned to Long
Island where he spent a year and a half running for his hometown congressional
seat, before the electoral district was abolished by the redistricting
of 1982. He then came back to Washington and started practicing law
full time.
When not working, over the
last few years he has been found coaching roller hockey, basketball,
baseball and soccer, avocations facilitated by having five kids.
He has also been seen occasionally strumming a Martin DS35 guitar with
cracks of unknown origin.
He lives with his family in
Potomac, Maryland.
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