Douglas Price | West Mifflin Estate Lawyer

Douglas L. Price, Esquire has been practicing law for 31 years. Born and raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts and the West Virginia University College of Law in 1990. Mr. Price started his law career at a general practice law firm where he learned aspects of all types of law from business law to criminal law, family law, bankruptcy, wills and estates and litigation. After several years, Mr. Price returned to Pittsburgh, practicing insurance defense and insurance coverage litigation. Over the next several years, Mr. Price tried many cases to verdict, and was invited to become a member of the prestigious Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, a group of the top 250 trial lawyers in Allegheny County. Mr. Price has tried cases throughout Western Pennsylvania, in both Pennsylvania courts and Federal Courts. In 2018, Mr. Price obtained one of the largest verdicts in Washington County, Pennsylvania when a jury awarded his client $4,242,573 because of a missed diagnosis of kidney failure which required a kidney transplant and lifelong difficulties.

In addition to trial work, Mr. Price began to work with the elderly on legal issues surrounding estate planning and elder law issues. Mr. Price practice continues to center on litigation claims but business issues, estates and elder law have become more prominent.

Mr. Price is a member of the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and California (inactive) Bar Associations, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Northern District of West Virginia. In addition to trial work, Mr. Price has brief and argued appeals before Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts, as well as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.