Doug Mills
Partner
Experience
Douglas's focus is on:
- Commercial and general litigation
- Energy litigation
- Intellectual property and technology litigation
- Occupational health and safety and environmental defence litigation
- Commercial arbitration
- Mediation
Community involvement
Douglas is a Director and Past Chair of the Fort Calgary Preservation Society. He is also an Executive Board Member of the Alcove Addiction Recovery for Women Society.
Professional involvement
Doug is a member of BD&P's Conflicts Committee and is a former co-lead of the litigation group. Doug is also a past Instructor in the civil litigation component of the Alberta Bar Admission course, at the University of Calgary Trial Advocacy program.
Professional associations
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (FACTL)
- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society
Presentations
Doug provides seminars to various client and industry groups on civil litigation and occupational health and safety matters. including:
- Rights of First Refusal, Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen (CAPL), March 2002
- Co-presenter of papers for the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation including Douglas G. Mills and Brian Beck, Recent Judicial Developments of Interest to Oil & Gas Lawyers (1998) 36 Alta. L. Rev. (No.2) 486
- Douglas G. Mills, Carolyn A. Wright and Julie J.M. Taylor (née Inch), Exploring the Balance of Power in the Operator/Non-Operator Relationship under the CAPL Operating Procedure (2010) 48 Alta. L. Rev. (No.2) 363
Representative work
Awards
Recent honours and recognition
Best Lawyers in Canada recommended lawyer in the area of corporate and commercial litigation (annually since 2008)
Named as a Litigation Star in Benchmark Litigation Canada (2024, 2025)
Named a senior statesperson in litigation: general commercial (Alberta) by Chambers Canada (2022)
Recognized by Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in dispute resolution arbitration (nationwide - Canada) and litigation: general commercial (Alberta) (2016-2021)
Named in Lexpert's Special Edition of Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers, 2017, 2018 and 2020
Named in Chambers Global Client's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Dispute Resolution: Arbitration, 2019
Recommended lawyer in dispute resolution: Alberta by the Legal 500 Canada (2018-2019)
Named in Lexpert's special edition on Canada's leading litigation lawyers (2018-2019)
Calgary corporate and commercial litigation lawyer of the year by Best Lawyers in Canada (2018)
Named in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading practitioner in directors' and officers' liability and securities litigation (2012-2017), and in corporate and commercial Litigation (annually since 2004)
Named in Chamber's Global as a leading dispute resolution lawyer (2008-2015)
Named as a litigation star by Benchmark Litigation Canada in the areas of arbitration, energy and natural resources and general commercial (annually since 2012)
News
June 27, 2025
BD&P Recognized in Benchmark Litigation’s 2025 Canada Rankings
November 6, 2024
Nine BD&P Lawyers included in the Who's Who Legal: Canada 2024 Guide
August 29, 2024
52 BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers Canada
May 1, 2024
BD&P Lawyers Ranked as Future and Litigation Stars
November 17, 2023
Ten BD&P Lawyers included in the Who's Who Legal: Canada 2023 Guide
August 24, 2023
Forty-one BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers Canada
March 1, 2023
Recognition from Lexpert celebrates BD&P lawyers as recommended leaders in Canada
August 25, 2022
Thirty-five BD&P lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers in Canada, 2023 edition
April 28, 2021
Fifteen BD&P litigation lawyers ranked in Benchmark Canada 2021
April 23, 2021
Twenty BD&P lawyers recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2021
October 27, 2020
Lexpert ranks a record number of BD&P partners and counsel among Canada's leading energy lawyers
September 9, 2020
Sixteen BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of Chambers Canada
August 27, 2020
Thirty-four lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada guide
April 29, 2020
Twenty-three lawyers ranked in 2020 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
April 14, 2020
Thirteen BD&P litigation lawyers ranked in Benchmark Canada 2020
February 14, 2020
Five BD&P partners recognized by Chambers Global as world leading lawyers
December 17, 2019
Six BD&P lawyers named in the 2020 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
August 21, 2019
31 BD&P lawyers included in 2020 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada
May 3, 2019
Twenty-one lawyers ranked across seventeen practice areas in 2019 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
March 26, 2019
Ten litigation partners ranked in the 2019 edition of Benchmark Canada
February 14, 2019
Chambers Global recognizes BD&P partners as world-leading lawyers
December 13, 2018
BD&P litigators included in Lexpert’s Litigation Special Edition, 2018
September 21, 2018
BD&P lawyers recognized as leading practitioners in 2019 edition of Chambers Canada
August 21, 2018