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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)
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