V. Kathleen Dougherty Partner

Katie is a partner in the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Litigation group. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Katie spent more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice, including nine years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. There, she focused on investigating and prosecuting white-collar crimes, including healthcare and securities fraud, federal tax violations, and various forms of fraud against government programs.

At McGuireWoods, Katie calls on this experience to navigate high-stakes government and criminal investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory matters, and sensitive internal investigations for institutions and individuals.  Her diligence brings credibility to her clients’ dealings with government investigators and prosecutors.

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.