V. Kathleen Dougherty Partner

At McGuireWoods, Katie represents corporate and individual clients in sensitive criminal and regulatory investigations. She helps companies and executives conduct sensitive internal investigations on matters ranging from global compliance to allegations of employee wrongdoing. Her diligence brings credibility to her clients’ dealings with government investigators and prosecutors. Outside of the investigative context, Katie collaborates with clients seeking to build efficient, effective, and sustainable corporate compliance programs. She has played a key role in the evaluation, design, and implementation of ethics and compliance programs at global enterprises, as well as small companies. Katie has also advised companies on compliance with deferred prosecution agreements and other settlements.

During her service as an AUSA, Katie led multiple trial teams and briefed and argued appeals before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. After completion of her clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Katie was selected to join the Attorney General’s Honors Program and began her career as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, where she teaches a course on federal sentencing law.