Recognition

Awards and Recognition

Chambers Global 2007 acknowledged Doug as a Leading Arbitrator in Australia and listed him among the Leading Individuals in International Arbitration.

Who’s Who Legal 2007 identified Doug as an arbitration specialist and ranked him as one of four internationally recognised International Arbitration lawyers practising in Australia.

In addition to being recognised as an expert Australian arbitration lawyer in the Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Doug has been ranked by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2007 as one of the most highly recommended legal experts in Dispute Resolution in the Asia Pacific region.

The International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers 2007 he is ranked as one of only 11 “Most Highly Regarded individuals - Global“. In the Construction - Australia category, it stated that “Douglas Jones is Australia’s most highly nominiated individual, obtaining sufficient nominations to place him in the list of our most highly regarded practitioners. Jones is a ‘prominent figure in the Australian construction bar’ and an ‘outstanding lawyer’ who heads the major projects, international arbitration and construction practices for the firm.

PLC Which Lawyer? 2007 ranked Doug as the (sole) Leading Individual - Construction - Australia: “Widely regarded as the leading expert in construction law in Australia.

Chambers Global 2007: Projects noted that “Construction specialist Doug Jones is commended for ‘his excellent client skills, his genuine intellect and his vast industry knowledge’.”

In Who’s Who Legal 2006: Construction, “…arbitration expert, Doug Jones of Clayton Utz … tops the research in the Asia Pacific region. He is recognised as ‘the king of Australian construction law’ and ‘absolutely outstanding’ by respondents.”

Ranked as a Leading Individual - Construction - Australia, survey work undertaken for the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory of 2006/2007 stated that ‘litigator Doug Jones is revered by clients and peers alike’.

“Doug Jones has a first-class reputation for PPP projects” [Asia Pacific Legal 500: Projects and Energy 2005/2006].

In January 1999, Doug was made a member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his thirty years’ contribution to construction law and dispute resolution.