Powers, Dennis Wade

Ryan Colleen Daugherty is an associate and member of the firm's Litigation group. She focuses on employment and other commercial litigation, as well as estate administration and planning matters. She joined the firm in 2008 after graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law and the University of Georgia College of Environmental Design. In addition to her law practice, she is a LEED AP BD+C, and a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council's Kentucky Chapter, serving as its Legislative Task Force Chair. She is also a LFUCG Greenspace Commissioner and volunteers on various civic organizations such as Bluegrass Tomorrow, Race for Education and Girls on the Run. She recently was selected in 2010 as a Lexington Young Professionals Association Rising Star, and as one of five Emerging Leaders chosen to attend the 2010 Louisville and Lexington Chamber's joint Leadership Expedition. 

Since being admitted to practice law, Ryan has successfully advocated for the firm's clients in several Kentucky counties, as well as to the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court, as well as before administrative bodies such as the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, Unemployment Insurance Appeals Branch, and gained substantial trial experience alone and assisting members of our firm.

As part of the firm's litigation group she has also assisted members of the firm in the following matters; a successful motion to dismiss a contractual claim in the client's favor, in Faesy v. Durham, Franklin County Circuit Court 09-CI-1898; the reversal of a temporary injunction related to the enforcement of a non-compete agreement; the litigation and settlement of complex estate litigation involving over half a million dollars in alleged debts and advancements; and a personal injury trial which resulted in a multi-million dollar verdict in the client's favor in Lambirth v. Flick, Fayette Circuit Court No. 06-CI-02088, amongst others.