Douglas Dixon

Douglas J. Dixon is a founding partner of Hueston Hennigan and a first-chair trial lawyer whom Chambers reports clients call “a phenomenal courtroom lawyer” with “unbelievable credibility with judges and juries.” Companies rely on Dixon to resolve their most critical, often bet-the-company disputes across complex business litigation, mass torts, antitrust, intellectual property, and securities matters. He has led many of the firm’s signature wins and represents market-leading clients including Amazon, Amgen, Broadcom, Epic Games, Glaukos, GoDaddy, Lionsgate, Match Group, Micron, PacifiCorp, PubMatic, Southern California Edison, and Western Digital.

Mr. Dixon is Chambers-ranked in commercial litigation and has been recognized as a national “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation since 2021. The Los Angeles Business Journal has named him among its “Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys” for the past three years. The Daily Journal has selected him as one of one of California’s “Leading Commercial Litigators” and “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers,” and Lawdragon named him to its 2025 “500 Leading Global Antitrust and Competition Lawyers.” 

Updated Oct 2025

• Mr. Dixon led the team that secured a favorable February 2025 settlement for GoDaddy.com in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Entri, a tech company that developed a website automation product called Entri Connect. Entri accused GoDaddy of blocking use of Entri Connect and similar products in connection with domain names registered by GoDaddy in violation of the antitrust laws, among other claims. GoDaddy disputed Entri’s allegations and filed counterclaims. The parties settled with neither side paying any money.
   
• Mr. Dixon obtained a favorable settlement exceeding $300 million in value for Match Group against Google over its illegal monopolization and other anticompetitive behavior in the distribution of mobile apps and processing of in-app purchases. The settlement was recognized with a U.S. Impact Case Award by Benchmark Litigation.
  
  
• Mr. Dixon is co-leading the team representing Southern California Edison in connection with the January 2025 “Eaton Fire” in Altadena, in which plaintiffs have filed a flurry of suits seeking to hold the utility responsible for one of the destructive blazes in California history.
  
  
• As co-lead counsel, Mr. Dixon is defending a Western utility in dozens of headline-grabbing actions stemming from the September 2020 “Labor Day Fires” that burned over 500,000 acres across Oregon and Northern California. He and his team have scored multiple pre-trial and trial wins and obtained favorable resolutions with nearly 2,000 plaintiffs to date.   
  
  
• Mr. Dixon won complete defense verdict of no infringement and invalidity representing ClearOne Inc. as lead trial counsel in the District of Delaware in a case involving design patent for beamforming microphone arrays against Shure Incorporated.

• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Intellectual Property
• Securities

• Technology and telecommunications
• Utilities

• Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2005) magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (B.S., 1998, Political Science) magna cum laude

• Immediate Past Chair, J. Reuben Clark Law Society – Orange County

• California 
• New York