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Ms. Doolittle is Co-Chair of the National Trial Practice Group for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges and is resident in the firm's Silicon Valley Office.  Ms. Doolittle practices in all areas of business litigation, with an emphasis on trial practice.  As a former prosecutor, she also handles white collar cases, including internal investigations, SEC investigations and grand jury matters.  Ms. Doolittle is an experienced and successful trial lawyer.  She has tried more than 60 cases in her eighteen years of practice.  In all but three trials, she served as the first-chair trial lawyer.  She has won more than 93% of her trials.  Of the 24 cases Ms. Doolittle tried in the last ten years, she lost only one.   

In most of her recent matters, Ms. Doolittle has been engaged in the weeks or months before trial, specifically to act as trial counsel.  She has tried a wide variety of complex business disputes with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in dispute in both state and federal court across the country, including antitrust, fraud, breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of fiduciary duty and insurance coverage.  She has tried employment cases involving allegations of discrimination, harassment and wrongful discharge.  Ms. Doolittle also has extensive experience trying criminal cases, from street crimes to white collar crimes.  In her most recent trial, a complex international arbitration, she obtained a unanimous defense award on behalf of her client, Oracle Corporation. 

In addition to her hands on trial work, Ms. Doolittle has lectured extensively about trial practice.  She teaches trial advocacy and deposition practice at Stanford Law School and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA).  In 2007, Ms. Doolittle was selected by the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journals as one of the "Top Women Litigators" in California.

Won a defense award following a JAMS international arbitration on behalf of Oracle Corporation, where Oracle's former Saudi Arabian joint venture partner had sued for fraud and breach of contract under Saudi law seeking tens of millions of dollars.

Won a defense verdict in federal jury trial in the Southern District of New York on behalf of The Scotts Company where plaintiff alleged an unlawful agreement in restraint of trade and conspiracy to monopolize.  Plaintiff sought $250 million in damages.

Won a defense verdict following a six-week jury trial in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of investment bank Jefferies & Co. in which the plaintiff, a highly compensated investment banker, alleged wrongful termination and discrimination and sought millions in damages.  The verdict was nominated for "Verdict of the Month" by the National Law Journal.

Won a defense award following a six-week trial in an administrative enforcement action brought by the California Department of Managed Health Care against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.  

Won a verdict of $10,500,000 in a federal jury trial in Ohio on behalf of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, where Scotts had brought suit alleging breach of contract and fiduciary duty, and successfully defeated defendant's billion dollar fraud counterclaim.

Obtained a $52 million settlement on the eve of trial for an individual plaintiff in a real estate development partnership dispute.

Obtained a favorable settlement after four weeks of jury trial in Sacramento Superior Court for one of the CNA companies, a national insurance company, where plaintiff claimed that CNA failed to reimburse $135 million incurred in cleaning up a major Superfund site.