Douglas Vanderpool

Mr. Vanderpool is known as an “attorney’s trial attorney.” Often hired by his peers and former adversaries, Mr. Vanderpool develops novel theories and creative solutions to his client’s legal needs. Opposing counsel learn quickly that Mr. Vanderpool is also happy to try cases and why clients hire him for his unique hands-on approach and extensive experience as a trial lawyer and strategist. One long-time client has said “hiring him was the best decision I ever made for the company.” Mr. Vanderpool has been voted by his peers as a “Top Gun” Trial Attorney. Mr. Vanderpool was awarded the prestigious “Trial Attorney of the Year” in 2012 by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Vanderpool served four years in the U.S. Army as a Voice Language Intelligence Interception Specialist, receiving an honorable discharge in 1982. Mr. Vanderpool was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, with special assignments in Cuba and throughout Central America. Mr. Vanderpool is fluent in Spanish and has traveled extensively. Mr. Vanderpool graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, and was chosen as the commencement speaker. In 1992 Mr. Vanderpool graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, as a member of the Thurston Society, which recognizes academic excellence. Mr. Vanderpool also received the William Clark Sanford Scholarship, and the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence. While still in law school, Mr. Vanderpool worked full time in the litigation department of San Francisco’s Broad, Schulz, Larson & Wineberg, a firm specializing in antitrust and complex business litigation. During his third year of law school, Mr. Vanderpool worked full time for the in-house litigation department of Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, and as a certified law clerk successfully tried (and defensed) his first case.