Patrick R. Douglas

PATRICK R. DOUGLAS is a sixth-generation native of Southeast Missouri, and has litigated extensively in both State and Federal Courts in Missouri and across the region.

Douglas practices primarily in agricultural law and litigation, representing large agricultural suppliers, agricultural cooperatives, and agricultural lenders in a variety of litigation and transactional matters.

Douglas and other members of the firm were Southeast Missouri counsel who provided common benefit assistance to the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the Dicamba soybean drift litigation which was consolidated in the Southeast Division of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Since that time, Douglas has continued to represent farmers who have sustained crop damage due to injury from off-target herbicide application or drift.

Douglas also practices in the area of mass agricultural torts, representing farmers and agricultural workers who may have been exposed to Roundup © or other forms of glyphosate, who have developed Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, as well as farmers and agricultural workers who may have sustained injury from other herbicide or pesticide exposure. Douglas also represents local Levee and Drainage District interests, and has an active transactional practice.

Prior to joining the firm, Douglas served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lewis M. Blanton, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. Douglas is a member of the Missouri Bar, and is admitted to practice in all Missouri Courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, the Eastern District of Arkansas, the Central District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Douglas graduated Cum Laude from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he earned a B.S.Ed. in 1999. He earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2002. While in law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review, where he was also twice published as an author.

Douglas is a former President of the Sikeston Jaycees and is a former President of the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Association Board of Directors. Douglas was named an “Outstanding Young Missourian” by the Missouri Jaycees in 2010. He is a 2011 recipient of the Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce Jaycee Distinguished Service Award. He is also a member of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association, where he has served on the Nominating Committee. He is a member of the American Agricultural Law Association.