Veteran Litigator Douglas A. Thompson Joins Snell & Wilmer's Los Angeles Office
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LOS ANGELES - Californer -- Snell & Wilmer is pleased to welcome Commercial Litigation Partner Douglas A. Thompson to the Los Angeles office.

Thompson defends class action litigation matters and represents financial institutions and businesses in related regulatory investigations. Throughout his career, he has represented clients in more than 250 putative class actions and has been admitted pro hac vice in numerous federal district courts. He assists clients in mitigating emerging regulatory and litigation risk, and collaborates with clients to champion inclusion, innovation, and thought leadership initiatives. He joins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.

Thompson has defended a variety of businesses across multiple industries, including technology, food, and cosmetics, retail, and financial services companies, against statutory claims challenging operations and sales practices, labeling, and marketing statements, and ESG and sustainability risk considerations such as purported green washing and other disclosures risks.

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Earlier in his career, Thompson spent more than a decade leading in-house corporate law department litigation and related legal administration strategy. In this capacity, he managed a national financial services institution's enterprise-wide class actions and litigation including consumer finance, employment, commercial, and securities litigation. Thompson's extensive in-house experience enables him to focus litigation strategy and resources to address the issues most critical to institutional clients. Additionally, in the decade prior to joining Snell & Wilmer and while a partner at an international Am Law 100 firm, he served in a variety of firm leadership roles, most recently as co-leader of that firm's Global Banking Sector. An avid writer and thought leader, Thompson authors client alerts and other publications and provides educational programming covering a variety of timely topics including ESG sustainability disclosures and reporting, as well as financial services litigation, regulatory risk, enforcement, and governance issues. Thompson received his J.D. from Pepperdine University and his B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University. To learn more about his practice, visit www.swlaw.com/people/douglas-thompson.

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About Snell & Wilmer
Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals, and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit swlaw.com.