Doug Northup is an experienced trial attorney in our business litigation practice group whose work focuses on complex commercial business litigation, high-risk tort defense and professional liability litigation. As a business litigation attorney, he represents large corporate clients in a variety of contractual disputes, franchise, and real estate litigation. He also possesses broad experience in premises and security liability cases representing government clients, manufacturers, businesses and other organizations. Doug also handles cases related to the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (PMPA), and insurance coverage and bad faith matters for policyholders.
As a former police officer who was dedicated to serving his community, Doug’s passion for exceptional client service has established him as a mentor for many of our associates; he advocates looking at life from a client’s perspective. In any situation, he always puts himself in the position of the audience, which can be the client, or jury, judge or other decision-maker.
Doug’s success as a business litigation attorney comes from not only solving problems, but from consistently winning, and his flexibility at managing teams on large, complex cases. Although he assists clients with avoiding and minimizing the risk of litigation through contractual indemnity and limitation of liability clauses and insurance, clients and opposing counsel also know that Doug is always ready to go to trial. This ability to develop complex strategies – thinking like a chess player who is always looking several moves ahead – combined with his experience in picking juries and trying multifaceted cases means that this Phoenix-based litigation attorney is always in demand.
Outside of his work as a business litigation attorney, Doug is at ease in the city – you may find him at a golf course or in one of the valley’s fine restaurants. When not in Phoenix, you might find him at his cabin in the White Mountains getting away from it all.
El campo legal del Lic. Northup se especializa en litigios mercantiles, responsabilidades civiles por daños a terceros y responsabilidades profesionales. Representa a compañías petroleras en litigios relacionados con franquicias, que incluyen asuntos regidos por el Decreto para el Mercadeo del Petróleo. Asimismo, representa a clientes en asuntos que involucran responsabilidades civiles por daños relacionados con gasolineras y tiendas de abarrotes, tales como responsabilidades dentro de las instalaciones y responsabilidades sobre garantías, en donde su experiencia al haberse desempeñado anteriormente como oficial de policía, es realmente inestimable. El Lic. Northup también se hace cargo de asuntos que involucran responsabilidades complejas sobre productos y ha representado a diversidad de fabricantes como por ejemplo de armas de fuego, de equipo de carretillas elevadoras, de medicamentos (farmacéuticas), de neumáticos y de equipo pesado para minería. En forma adicional, asesora a los clientes para evitar y minimizar el riesgo de ir a juicio mediante acuerdos de compensaciones e indemnizaciones, de cláusulas contractuales de responsabilidad limitada y por medio de seguros.
El Lic. Northup tiene bajo su dirección los casos de responsabilidades civiles por daños a terceros y a negocios y adicionalmente dicta conferencias sobre responsabilidades dentro de las instalaciones y asuntos de responsabilidades relacionadas con transporte y fabricación de productos. Es un Abogado Martindale Hubbell, clasificado AV. Obtuvo el reconocimiento de pertenecer a la lista de Los Mejores Abogados en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica del 2006, así como en el listado de los Mejores Abogados de Negocios de 2006 preparado por las Cámaras de Comercio de Estados Unidos.