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Caitlin Doak brings valuable experience from the judicial and public sectors to her role as a litigation associate. She offers well-rounded legal perspective at both the trial and appellate levels, giving clients insight into how disputes are developed, argued, and resolved from multiple vantage points to help them anticipate challenges and achieve favorable outcomes.
Before joining the firm, Caitlin served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Arizona Attorney General’s Office Environmental Protection Unit, where she advanced pressing environmental efforts, developed consumer fraud and public nuisance cases, and led settlement negotiations in complex groundwater disputes. Additionally, she clerked for the Hon. Gloria M. Navarro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada and for Chief Justice Robert M. Brutinel of the Arizona Supreme Court, gaining deep knowledge of both state and federal trial and appellate practice.
Along with her government service and esteemed clerkships, Caitlin has authored several publications on public lands-related issues, helping guide dialogue and inform approaches to sustainability, access, and regulation. She graduated in the top 5% of her class from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
Representative Matters
- Developed consumer fraud and public nuisance cases on behalf of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
- Led settlement negotiations in a complex groundwater contamination dispute.
- Advanced environmental protection initiatives in collaboration with multi-state coalitions.
- Drafted proposed orders on civil and criminal motions; managed court docket and maintained ownership of over 200 active cases while developing new case tracking system.
- Gained command of Arizona research resources and black letter law to write bench memoranda analyzing discrete issues of Arizona law.
Awards & Recognitions
- HHS Office for Civil Rights Director’s Award (2024)
- HHS Cybersecurity Awards Program for Excellence (CAPE) Team Award (2024)
- HHS Office of the General Counsel Service Award (2023)
- HHS Office of the General Counsel COVID-19 Response Honor Award (2023)
Publications & Presentations
- Author, “National Scenic Trails, Pipelines, & FERC: Examining Pipeline Certification After United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Forest Preservation Association,” Villanova Environmental Law Journal (2022)
- Co-author, “Making Recreation on Public Lands More Accessible,” Notre Dame Law Review (2022)
- Co-author, “Dropping Anchors: Fixed Gear and the Future of Climbing in Wilderness Areas,” Federal Bar Association Younger Lawyers Division Perspectives (Spring 2024)
- Co-author, “Animals in the Courtroom,” Journal of Law & Policy (2024)
- Author, “U.S. Legal Frameworks for Access to the Outdoors,” in Disability & the Outdoors (forthcoming 2025)
Clerkships & Internships
- Gloria M. Navarro, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (2022 – 2024)
- Robert M. Brutinel, Arizona Supreme Court (2021 – 2022)
Education & Admissions
- J.D., magna cum laude, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, 2021; Order of the Coif; Order of the Barristers; Dean’s Award; High Pro Bono Distinction; Joseph Feller Memorial Fellowship; Willard H. Pedrick Scholar; O’Connor Honors Fellow; Arizona State Law Journal; Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
- A. with Honors in Philosophy, magna cum laude, Dickinson College, 2016
- Admitted in Arizona, 2021