D.
Douglas Titus
has practiced administrative, tax, business, commercial, estate
planning/probate, bankruptcy, and employment law for over twenty years. He also
works with families on elder law issues and planning. Before returning to full-time private practice full-time, he
was with the state and local tax division of a Big Five accounting firm, having
previously served for several years as counsel – legislation and policy for
the Washington State Department of Revenue.
Titus
is a native of Castle Rock, Washington, and graduated from Whitman College in
Walla Walla. He received his law
degree, with honors, from the University of South Dakota, where he was a member
of the Sterling Honor Society, and the South Dakota Law Review.
He also received two graduate degrees in education from that school.
In 1998, Titus completed work for an LL.M. in taxation at the University
of Washington School of Law. He
teaches a graduate accounting class on business organizations and tax planning
for Central Washington University, and taught a class on school law for City
University.
Titus
has been admitted to practice before courts in Washington and Iowa, and the
United States Tax Court.
Titus
is a member of the American, Washington State, and King County Bar Associations
and their respective sections on taxation, elder law/probate, and employment.
He is also member of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, the
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Greater Seattle Business
Association, and the Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy.
Titus
has represented business and individual clients before administrative agencies,
state courts, the United States District and Circuit Courts, and the United
States Tax Court. His reported
decisions include:
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. v. Illinois Central Gulf
Railroad Co., 685 F.2d 255 (8th Cir. 1982).
Cochrane v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., 596 F.2d 254
(8th Cir. 1979).
Midwest Packers Traffic Association v. Interstate
Commerce Commission, 579 F.2d 473 (8th Cir. 1978).
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. v. Gorman, 476 F.Supp. 1382 (N.D. Iowa 1979)