Douglas specializes in working with commercial and real estate clients, offering vast expertise in negotiation and litigation, debt collection, summary eviction, foreclosure, and bankruptcy representation. Clients include the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation and Westall-Chandley Lumber Co.

Among his representative cases, Douglas represented Westall-Chandley to enforce a guarantee against a developer when the customer entered Chapter 11 reorganization. More than $60,000 was at stake, and Westall-Chandley received 60 cents on the dollar, while other creditors received less than 10 cents on the dollar (if anything).

He also helped obtain a writ of possession to sell $200,000 worth of property after a local sheriff's office seized the property from a member of the Patriot Network, a movement of people who refuse to pay income tax. And he helped get a $90,000 civil-rights lawsuit against the McDowell County Sheriffs Department (which developed out of an alleged affair between the plaintiff and a deputy) dismissed by a federal judge.

Douglas has recently led panels on landlord-tenant law, fair debt collection and scope of employment. He has been honored as a national member by The Order of Barristers and received the John B. Adams Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism.

He currently serves as treasurer for Buncombe Alternatives, Inc.; as secretary for Asheville Downtown Association and Blue Ridge Golden Retriever Club; and as Board Member for Hospitality House, Inc. and the Asheville Affiliates. Doug is a listed equine attorney with the NC Horse Council.