DOUGLAS SIMPSON, J.D.
938 Ridge Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109
Home:  (860) 529-8986 -- Cell: (860) 985-9464 
email:  doug "at" dougsimpson.com

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE
* Adjunct Professor -- Univ. of Hartford
    (Business Organizations; Insurance Law; Intellectual Prop.)
* Lecturer in Law -- U.Conn. School of Law (Insurance law)
* U.Conn. Graduate School of Business (guest lecture on privacy)
* Connecticut Bar Ass'n ("Cyberthieves in Corporate Vaults")
* American Bar Association Seminar (privacy in ADR practice)
* Society of CPCU (legal regulation of insurance on the Internet)
* Co-author "Creating an Antitrust Compliance Program"
  Checklists for Corporate Counsel, Business Laws, Inc. (1996)
* Business and "e-business" seminars on topics including
  financial security, insurance regulation, antitrust,
  digital signatures, business method patents and privacy.
* "Unintended Consequences," an online research journal on
  law, self-organized networks and disruptive technologies at 
  DougSimpson.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Of Counsel, Shipman, Sosensky, Randich & Marks, LLC;
providing business law and contract counsel to small business 
and consulting for lawyers regarding insurance and reinsurance.

Panel of Arbitrators, American Dispute Resolution Center:
Training and service as neutral in commercial disputes.

Five years to 2003, chief legal counsel to "startup" technology and 
service subsidiary of large insurance company. Dedicated "on-site" 
contract, compliance and corporate legal counsel to division providing
services and proprietary technology.  Formed entities, registered 
trademarks, enforced contracts through litigation and ADR and 
responded to government subpoenae. Co-invented new business methods.  
Managed creditors rights in bankruptcy.  Developed complex agreement 
to license enterprise-scale propriety software to another large 
insurance company.

Ten years on Board of Directors of three insurance guaranty funds
Detailed analysis of corporate "buy-outs" of insolvent insurers.

Twenty years as contract, regulatory and litigation counsel to large 
insurance company; provided compliance and operations counsel to 
management of property-casualty insurance operations, including 
personal and commercial lines, excess & surplus lines, reinsurance, 
captives and related services.  Co-drafter of major agreement for 
endorsed marketing of auto and home insurance to a large national 
association of retired persons.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

A.B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT
Admitted to practice law in the State of Connecticut
Member, Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Connecticut Bar Association
  --  Sections: Technology Law, Commercial Law
Board of Directors and V.P., Dartmouth Lawyers Association