Doug joined the firm as a partner in 1983, having previously practiced as a partner with a large Winnipeg law firm since his call to the Bar in 1975. His professional focus is in the areas of Business and Commercial and Corporation practice, with extensive involvement in business agreements, corporate matters, asset and share sale transactions, commercial reorganizations, licencing agreements, commercial real estate, real estate development, leases, financing, mortgages, foreclosures, wills and estates and aboriginal law.

Doug represents in excess of 100 corporations, with a wide array of legal requirements, from a variety of locally owned corporations involved in the retail, wholesale, service and manufacturing sectors, including a client in manufacturing with revenues in excess of $150 million annually, to banks and credit unions, real property developers, computer companies, technology developers, construction trades, and a Manitoba First Nation. He is also attorney for service for a number of federal and provincial corporations registered extra-provincially in Manitoba.

Doug has represented a party in negotiations with two levels of government leading to a settlement in excess of $56 million, and a party to an arbitration claim involving the Government of Canada and a major utility and a claim in excess of $100 million. He is currently involved in negotiations on behalf of the Tataskweyak Cree Nation at Split Lake, Manitoba, with respect to a possible major hydro development project in northern Manitoba.