Douglas Crapo is the Public Protection Deputy Attorney General for the Office of the Utah Attorney General. He started his legal career as an O’Hara Fellow practicing natural resource law for the office. After his fellowship, he clerked for the Honorable Tena Campbell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Then, he practiced health-care law and complex business litigation at Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar and most recently at Magebly, Cataxinos, & Greenwood.
Douglas served as White Collar Commercial Enforcement Division Director before his appointment to Public Protection Deputy. In that position, he stayed busy continuing the long battle of Utah seeking recovery of funding from the pharmaceutical industry players that brought and prolonged Utah’s opioid epidemic. He and his team work on enforcing many laws that protect the public as they represent their clients and colleagues in the Utah Department of Commerce’s Division of Consumer Protection, the Division of Securities, the Division of Professional Licensing, and Division of Real Estate.
Before Douglas’ legal career, he grew up in the middle of a potato field in Southern Idaho. He studied literature and filmmaking at Northwestern University and began his non-farming career practicing publicity at the Sundance Film Festival. He moved to New York and marketed arthouse films for Samuel Goldwyn Films throughout the country. Douglas returned West, started a family, and graduated in the Order of Coif from the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney School of Law.
