DOUGLAS L. SOUTAR

My Business

My approach to the practice of law is to help people solve their problems or achieve their objectives in a way that involves a minimum of stress and expense. I have found that a large part of the effective practice of law is to determine the essential and important elements of any situation, render sound advice, and reach a practical solution. 

Who I Am

Hometown: Greenwich, CT

Education:

Stanford University, A.B. 1965, English

University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 1972

Military Service:

U.S. Navy, 1966-1969, LTJG, USNR

My professional career has included six years at a major law firm in New York, over a year at a reinsurance company in New York, three and a half years at another major law firm in New York, over three years in the Superior Court in Stamford, (where I served as a judge's clerk in 20 jury trials, including 3 murder trials), and almost 20 years in private practice in Connecticut. I am a member of both the Connecticut and New York Bars.