Doug Cole represents clients in complex civil litigation, including intellectual property matters, at the trial and appellate levels. He has argued five cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 20 cases in the Ohio Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals, and has appeared in state and federal trial courts across the country. Doug also has a strong technical background, with degrees in electrical and computer engineering, physics, and mathematics.

Recent significant representations include a lead role in briefing an appeal for SanDisk on a patent matter in the Federal Circuit, briefing and arguing an Ohio Supreme Court appeal for ProMedica on a statutory interpretation issue, assisting FirstEnergy on two appeals in the Ohio Supreme Court, serving as lead counsel for Urban Active in connection with two consumer class actions in Ohio, assisting Chrysler with its bankruptcy reorganization at both the trial and appellate level, petitioning for certiorari on behalf of Macy's in a state tax matter, and representing Dell in connection with a major securities matter. Doug has also done significant amicus work, including representing a national group of law professors in a dormant Commerce Clause case at both the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, and representing a collection of twenty-four national law firms on an attorney disqualification issue in the California court of appeal, which resulted in the first California appeals court decision expressly recognizing the use of ethical walls as a means for preventing vicarious disqualification.

Doug has handled patent matters involving various technologies including telecommunications, semiconductors, networking, software and growing media. Representative clients include SanDisk, which he as represented both in the Federal Circuit and before the ITC, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Sendmail, and Molycorp.

At the request of Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, Doug served as Ohio's state solicitor from 2002-2006. In that capacity, he argued before the United States Supreme Court and Ohio Supreme Court on a variety of issues, including the First Amendment, statutory interpretation, and the dormant Commerce Clause. Before that, he was a tenure-track professor at the Ohio State University, teaching courses in corporations, contracts, and law and economics. Since joining the Firm, Doug has acted as an adjunct professor at OSU.

Doug frequently speaks and writes on subjects including the U.S. Supreme Court, intellectual property trends, and securities law. Doug is active in the Ohio State Bar Association, having served on the board of editors for the Ohio State Bar Journal.