Douglas R. Sparks

Personal injury attorney Douglas Sparks has been representing clients in the District of Columbia metropolitan area for forty years. In 1979 at age twenty-four, he was the youngest member of his class to graduate from law school, pass the bar exam, and be sworn in to practice law. During the 1980s, Mr. Sparks appeared in court thousands of times and defended criminal cases against some of the United States Attorney’s best prosecutors. He tried dozens of high stakes jury trials involving charges such as first degree murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicide, armed robbery, drug distribution, and conspiracy.

Washington, D.C. injury lawyer Douglas Sparks expanded his practice into personal injury and wrongful death litigation in the late 1980s, and by 1990 was focusing primarily on major personal injury matters. Today, Mr. Sparks is widely considered one of the District of Columbia’s premier personal injury lawyers, having won many newsworthy cases and recovering tens of millions of dollars for his clients.

Reporters and journalists have often covered Mr. Sparks and his cases. In one groundbreaking lawsuit filed against the D.C. police department, he successfully employed an untested legal theory on behalf a domestic violence murder victim’s small children. Channel 9 featured the case in its lead news segment, reporting that Mr. Sparks “used a legal strategy never tried here before . . . and won a first of its kind  settlement .”

In another case that spurred the D.C. government to implement sweeping reforms and the D.C. City Council to enact remedial legislation, Mr. Sparks sued the city on behalf of a mother over the murder of her son at the jail. A veteran reporter reflecting on the city’s most important civil rights victories in a Martin Luther King Day article wrote that the lawsuit “was rightfully lauded for a  historic settlement  over the death of a D.C. Jail inmate.”

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