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Ryan T. Dougherty

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Ryan focuses his practice on a wide variety of litigation matters including complex commercial disputes, securities and financial services litigation, and insurance law. He also regularly advises clients regarding government and internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and white collar criminal matters. Ryan has experience handling all stages of the litigation life cycle including drafting and responding to complaints, managing voluminous discovery, motion practice, and witness and trial preparation. He has experience leading teams in various forms of dispute resolution including civil and criminal trials, arbitrations, and mediations. 

Ryan also maintains an active pro bono practice that includes immigration advocacy, criminal record sealing efforts, and proceedings aimed at stemming domestic violence. Most significantly, Ryan partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts on a seminal case that shifted the burden of proof in bond hearings for certain immigrants detained during removal proceedings. 

While earning his law degree, Ryan held judicial internships with the Honorable Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Thomas Kaplanes in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court. Ryan also interned for a full year at the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, where he represented state agencies and officials in state and federal courts as part of the Government Bureau’s Administrative Law Division, and was a member of Boston College’s European Law Moot Court team. 

Prior to law school, Ryan worked at a Washington, DC-based management consultancy and coached college basketball at Georgetown University. In college, Ryan was the captain of the Georgetown University Men’s Basketball team.

Ryan focuses his practice on a wide variety of litigation matters including complex commercial disputes, securities and financial services litigation, and insurance law. He also regularly advises clients regarding government and internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and white collar criminal matters. Ryan has experience handling all stages of the litigation life cycle including drafting and responding to complaints, managing voluminous discovery, motion practice, and witness and trial preparation. He has experience leading teams in various forms of dispute resolution including civil and criminal trials, arbitrations, and mediations. 

Experience

Complex Commercial

  • Representing one of the world’s largest generic drug manufacturers in breach of contract cases and congressional investigations.
  • Representing professional basketball player in breach of contract dispute with former sports agent
  • Representing a publicly-traded uniform rental and workplace supply provider in breach of contract matters throughout the Northeast region. 
  • Secured a $20 million judgment on behalf of a family trust in a shareholder dispute between the co-founders of a life sciences start-up alleging securities fraud under the California blue sky statute, common law fraudulent inducement, and breaches of fiduciary duty. 
  • Represented environmental non-profit in trial which resulted in successful enforcement of conservation restriction on property in southeastern Massachusetts. 

White Collar

  • Represented two parent defendants indicted for fraud in relation to the sprawling Varsity Blues college admissions prosecution.
  • Conducted internal investigation into allegations of workplace harassment on behalf of professional basketball team and provided compliance advice relating to league bylaws and matters relating to the FLSA. 
  • Obtained favorable resolution on eve of trial for a manager of a global advertising technology company charged with federal wire fraud conspiracy and violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
  • Represented a leading multinational health technology company in a wide-ranging DOJ investigation and related internal investigation involving alleged False Claims Act violations.

Securities Litigation

  • Local counsel in District of Massachusetts to international footwear company in litigation regarding security interest in delivered products.
  • Representing former Chief Financial Officer in civil accounting fraud litigation brought by SEC in District of Massachusetts. 

Insurance

  • Representing a liability insurer in consolidated asbestos cases which concern the trigger of coverage for certain asbestos disease. 
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News & Press

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Mintz is pleased to announce that 31 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 35 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2024.

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Member Randy Jones and Associates Ryan Dougherty and Daniel Goodrich co-authored an article published in The Daily Journal analyzing Ciminelli v United States.

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Mintz has secured a favorable outcome for client Mark Manoogian, who was embroiled in a federal wire fraud and electronic mail fraud conspiracy prosecution.

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Pro bono litigation team recognized for work to achieve groundbreaking victory for immigrants’ rights and mentorship provided to the legal community.
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An article published by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reported that a victory secured in federal court by lawyers from Mintz and the American Civil Liberties Union is having a profound effect on the way bond hearings are conducted in deportation cases. The article included commentary from attorneys on the front lines in the Boston immigration court. One lawyer called the ruling a “breath of fresh air” and a “massive change in the law.”
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Articles published by Law360 and MassLive reported that Mintz, together with the ACLU of Massachusetts and the ACLU of New Hampshire, achieved a groundbreaking victory for immigrants’ rights when Chief U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris ruled that the government’s practice of detaining certain immigrants by default violates both due process and the Administrative Procedure Act.

The first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit, Pereira Brito v. Barr, was filed in June on behalf of immigrants who were jailed due to flawed detention hearings in which the detainee was required to bear the burden of proof as to not being a flight risk or a danger to the community. The latest ruling holds that the class of immigrants are entitled to bond hearings at which the government bears the burden of justifying an immigrant’s detention, and at which the immigration court must consider someone’s ability to pay when setting a bond amount.

The Mintz pro bono team representing the plaintiffs in this case includes Members Susan Finegan and Susan Cohen, Special Counsel Andrew Nathanson, and Associates Mathilda McGee-Tubb, Jennifer Mather McCarthy, and Ryan Dougherty.
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Law360 covered a summary judgment argument by lawyers from Mintz and the American Civil Liberties Union in a class action lawsuit, Pereira Brito v. Barr, challenging the government’s practice of denying due process to detained immigrants.
An article published by Law360 covered a motion hearing in a class action lawsuit, Pereira Brito v. Barr, filed by Mintz, together with the ACLU of Massachusetts and the ACLU of New Hampshire, challenging the government’s practice of denying due process to detained immigrants.
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Ryan focuses his practice on a wide variety of litigation matters including complex commercial disputes, securities and financial services litigation, and insurance law. He also regularly advises clients regarding government and internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and white collar criminal matters. Ryan has experience handling all stages of the litigation life cycle including drafting and responding to complaints, managing voluminous discovery, motion practice, and witness and trial preparation. He has experience leading teams in various forms of dispute resolution including civil and criminal trials, arbitrations, and mediations. 

Recognition & Awards

  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star - General Litigation (2024)

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Ryan focuses his practice on a wide variety of litigation matters including complex commercial disputes, securities and financial services litigation, and insurance law. He also regularly advises clients regarding government and internal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and white collar criminal matters. Ryan has experience handling all stages of the litigation life cycle including drafting and responding to complaints, managing voluminous discovery, motion practice, and witness and trial preparation. He has experience leading teams in various forms of dispute resolution including civil and criminal trials, arbitrations, and mediations. 

Involvement

  • Board member, Georgetown Basketball Hoya Hoop Club
  • Alumni interviewer, Georgetown University
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