Douglas R. Boettge

Experience

Doug Boettge defends companies and individuals in complex business litigation, class actions, regulatory matters, and internal investigations. His work often involves consumer-facing business practices, pricing and disclosure issues, privacy and data claims, regulated industries, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, and business valuation. Doug's accounting background gives him a practical advantage in disputes involving damages, valuation, financial records, ownership interests, and alleged business misconduct. Clients turn to him when litigation requires both legal judgment and a clear understanding of how the business actually operates.

Doug has defended businesses in consumer-protection and class-action matters involving alleged deceptive pricing, website disclosures, automatic-renewal and subscription practices, consumer lending, insurance claim valuation, product and service practices, privacy/data claims, and alleged unfair or deceptive trade practices. His experience includes defending companies against claims involving online pricing and promotional practices, automatic-renewal disclosures, California privacy and wiretapping theories, data breach allegations, consumer-lending disclosures, and insurance valuation practices.

He also represents clients in regulatory examinations, investigations, and enforcement proceedings involving insurance, health care, securities, fraud, and other regulated business conduct. Doug regularly helps clients assess litigation and regulatory risk, respond to government or regulator inquiries, develop practical defense strategies, and resolve disputes in a way that accounts for business realities as well as legal exposure.

In business ownership and governance disputes, Doug represents companies, owners, officers, directors, shareholders, partners, and fiduciaries in matters involving fiduciary duties, shareholder oppression, corporate control, accounting issues, business valuation, buyouts, and alleged misuse of company assets. He also handles franchise, distribution, dealership, unfair-competition, and restraint-of-trade disputes.

Doug has conducted internal investigations involving accounting issues, alleged fraud, regulatory compliance, government-program issues, and potential violations of insurance and securities laws.

• Defends companies in consumer-protection and class-action litigation involving pricing, website disclosures, automatic-renewal practices, privacy/data issues, consumer lending, insurance valuation, and alleged unfair or deceptive trade practices.
• Represents insurers, health care providers, and other regulated businesses in regulatory examinations, investigations, enforcement proceedings, and related litigation.
• Conducts internal investigations involving accounting issues, alleged fraud, regulatory compliance, government-program issues, and potential violations of insurance and securities laws.
• Represents companies, owners, shareholders, partners, officers, directors, and fiduciaries in business ownership, corporate governance, shareholder oppression, fiduciary-duty, and business valuation disputes.
• Handles franchise, distribution, dealership, unfair-competition, antitrust, and restraint-of-trade disputes.

Recognitions

Professional & Civic Activities