Ronan Doherty

Practice Areas

Ronan Doherty has nearly 30 years of experience successfully representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution in Georgia, New York, the District of Columbia, and across the country.

Doherty specializes in business disputes over commercial contracts and all manner of torts, including antitrust, RICO, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty. He has successfully represented corporate clients in a wide array of coverage disputes with their insurance carriers. He also has litigated numerous intellectual property cases, including trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes. And he has long-standing experience on appellate matters.

He has significant experience litigating all aspects of class actions. Doherty began his law firm career working as part of a team defending more than 100 antitrust class actions in an MDL proceeding. Since then, he has defended numerous class actions, served as plaintiffs’ class counsel, and represented individual clients that opted out of or objected to class settlements.

His diverse client roster ranges from small businesses to Fortune 50 companies across a variety of industries, such as institutional investors, software companies, retailers, hotel companies, airlines, oil jobbers, REITs, logistics companies, and manufacturers. He has also represented individual executives, officers, and in-house lawyers in corporate disputes.

Doherty has done a significant amount of pro bono work, prevailing for well-deserving clients in the Georgia Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the U.S. OARDEC’s Administrative Review Board for Guantanamo Bay detainees.