Doug was a police officer for the the City of Claremont for 13 years, and achieved the rank of Captain. During his time at Claremont he served as a Patrol Officer, Training Officer, Detective, Detective Sergeant, Watch Commander, and Captain of the Patrol Division. He also served as Chief for six months, and was invited to apply for that position again, which he declined to do. 

Doug Allen ranked number one in his Law School Class. He has worked in a large Los Angeles based civil litigation firm and concentrated on police misconduct cases. He also was, for less than a year, a Deputy Public Defender in San Bernardino County, and was involved in more than one hundred criminal cases.

In private practice Doug has represented clients charged with offenses ranging from minor in possession of alcohol to first degree murder. Doug has represented hundreds of clients all over Southern California, and is familiar with the courts, prosecutors, policies and judges. He has been a lecturer in Criminal Law at California State University, San Bernardino.

He is admitted to practice law in all California Courts, the United States Supreme Court, Federal District Court in Los Angeles, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He has two published California Appellate decisions. He is a member of the California State Bar, San Bernardino County Bar Association, and California DUI Defenders.

He was interviewed by and quoted in TIME magazine -along with six other attorneys nationwide- regarding the impact of the September 11th attacks on the court and jury system in criminal cases.

Doug has been married for 30 years and has four sons; two in Grad School (Cal State Long Beach & MIT), and 16 year old identical twins in High School.

A creative and non traditional approach to criminal defense is emphasized, drawing upon a unique background from both sides of the Criminal Justice system. Clients are seen as the individuals they are, not as "defendants" in the impersonal and unconcerned criminal justice system.

Record Expungement is now Doug's only area of practice.

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