Goad, James Earl

Ronan Doherty represents both plaintiffs and defendants in all aspects of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution, in the state of Georgia and nationwide. He has more than a decade’s worth of experience successfully representing clients in complex, high-stakes cases.

His areas of concentration include business torts, including antitrust, RICO, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with business relations. Ronan also has litigated a number of intellectual property cases, including trademark, copyright and trade secret disputes. And Ronan has significant experience in the areas of class actions, commercial contract litigation and appellate practice. 

In addition to representing several Fortune 100 companies, Ronan has represented medium and small corporate clients in bet-the-company cases. And Ronan has done a significant amount of pro bono work, accepting appointments from both the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Ronan serves as the Vice-chair of the Georgia Bar’s Appellate Practice Seminar. For several years, Ronan has chaired the Georgia Appellate Practice Seminar, an annual seminar that brings practitioners together with many of the Justices of the Georgia Supreme Court and Judges of the Georgia Court of Appeals.