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Douglas L. Guynn
Doug Guynn counsels school boards, educational organizations, and other clients in education law, employment law, and civil litigation. Doug has been counsel to numerous school boards across Virginia and has served on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, by appointment of the Governor. Mr. Guynn has represented the Virginia School Boards Association before the Virginia Supreme Court and has been one of the Association’s featured speakers on various legal issues. His education law litigation work includes a precedent-setting special education law case before the Fourth Circuit and a First Amendment case that tested the boundaries of employee “free speech.” Doug’s experience also covers constitutional issues not only for school boards but for other targets of litigation, including his notable role as lead trial and appellate counsel in a groundbreaking hostile corporate takeover case in Virginia.
EducationVirginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (B.S., 1976) University of Virginia (J.D., 1980)
Bar AdmissionsVirginia United States District Court, Western District of Virginia United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit United States Supreme Court
Professional MembershipsVirginia School Boards Association, Charter Member and Past Chairman National School Boards Association, Member Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Permanent Member Virginia Law Foundation, Fellow American Bar Foundation, Fellow Virginia State Bar Judicial Nominations Committee, Chairman Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation, Director |