Douglas M. Nelson

Mr. Nelson is a founding member of Moustakas Nelson LLC, where his practice includes corporate and business counseling, trademark application, outside general counsel, information technology, healthcare, and other transactional business representation, for clients ranging from individuals and start ups to publicly traded institutions. Mr. Nelson also litigates estate, trust, fiduciary, and guardianship matters, including will challenges and contested guardianships before New Jersey and Pennsylvania probate and orphans’ courts.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Nelson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen L. Suter, P.J. Ch., Chancery Division, General Equity and Probate Part (now Appellate Division), where he received first-hand experience in New Jersey’s general equity and probate trial court. In that role, Mr. Nelson authored hundreds of draft decisions and legal memorandum regarding New Jersey probate, foreclosure, and general equity matters and wrote extensively on New Jersey trade secret law, non-competition agreements, temporary restraining orders, restrictive covenants, and probate litigation issues.

Mr. Nelson also previously served as a law fellow in the Office of Senator Christopher A. Coons in Washington DC and Wilmington, Delaware, where he focused on providing policy recommendations on cyber security and intellectual property for Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearings as well as issues concerning Dodd-Frank disclosure requirements, EB-5 investor visa program changes, and tax credits for startup corporations.

Mr. Nelson is a resident of Marlton, New Jersey. Outside of law, Mr. Nelson enjoys book collecting, surfing and fishing on Long Beach Island, and all things tech.

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Communications & Internet Law

Internet Law, Media & Advertising, Telecommunications Law

Trademarks

Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

Probate

Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests

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New Jersey

Since 2011

Pennsylvania

Since 2011

Member

District III.B (Burlington County) Attorney Ethics Committee

2017 - Current

Member

Healthcare Forum Committee, Burlington County Regional Chamber of Commerce

2016 - Current

Seton Hall University School of Law

J.D. (2011) | Law

2008 - 2011

Honors: Magna Cum Laude; Order of the Coif; New Jersey Federal Bar Association Scholarship

Activities: Seton Hall Law Review, Articles Editor

University of Delaware

B.A. (2007) | Political Science & History

2007

The Pennington School

2004

Rising Stars

Super Lawyers

2023

State Bar of New Jersey  # 023312011

Member

2011 - Current

American Bar Association

Member

2011 - Current

State Bar of Pennsylvania  # 311672

Member

2011 - Current

Pennsylvania Bar Assocation

Member

2011 - Current

Protecting Goodwill and Intellectual Proper - A Primer on Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets