The Louisiana State Bar Association's (LSBA) Young Lawyers Section Council is spotlighting young lawyer Dana M. Douglas from New Orleans.
Douglas is a shareholder in the law firm of Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C. She received a BA degree from Miami University in 1997 and her law degree from Loyola University College of Law in 2000. While at Loyola, she was editor-in-chief of Loyola's Public Interest Law Journal. Upon graduation, she served as a judicial clerk to Hon. Ivan L.R. Lemelle, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 2000-01. Her areas of practice are business litigation, energy litigation and intellectual property.
Aside from her practice, Douglas has been very busy within the Bar. She currently serves on the LSBA's Board of Governors and previously served as chair of the LSBA's Minority Involvement Section. She has been a member of the LSBA's Diversity Committee, Access to Justice Committee and Intellectual Property Law Section. A member of the 2006-07 Leadership LSBA Class, Douglas subsequently co-chaired the 2008-09 Leadership Class. Under her leadership, the 2008-09 class implemented, for the first time, a collaborative project where young leaders of the Bar from across the state worked on two projects: a statewide art project for high school students and a reception for first-time attendees at the LSBA's Annual Meeting.
Douglas currently serves on the board of directors of the New Orleans Bar Association (NOBA) and is a past chair of the NOBA Young Lawyers Section. She also has been involved with the NOBA Minorities in the Profession Committee and Intellectual Property Committee.
She received the American Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession Scholarship and previously served on the ABA Public Service Committee.
She is the inaugural president of the Women's Energy Network for southeast Louisiana. The Women's Energy Network is a group of more than 800 women working in a variety of energy-related professions, from banking to traditional oil and gas disciplines.
Douglas serves as a commissioner on the New Orleans Civil Service Commission, a quasi-judicial and policy-making body that exercises oversight of activities of the city's Civil Service Department, decides employee appeals of disciplinary action, and adopts rules and establishes policies that regulate the conduct of labor and management in the merit system.
She was a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute, a volunteer judge for the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court Teen Court Program and a board member for the New Orleans Children's Bureau. She was selected as one of the top 50 "Leaders in Law" in New Orleans.