Larry Dougherty

shareholder, guerra king p.a.

Workshop C Speaker | Nine Tips for Wrecking Your Business Partnership  | Tuesday, June 20th

Larry Dougherty ("Dock-er-tee") focuses his practice on disputes between business partners, receiverships, and securities matters. Larry's clients include executives, investors, and corporations in the fields of financial services, real estate, and other industries. He has litigated securities, breach-of-contract, white-collar fraud, and other complex matters in direct and derivative actions in federal and state courts. Larry joined the firm in 2020 after seven years of practicing with the Tampa office of a respected national law firm. As a former investigative journalist and former federal appellate law clerk, Larry assembles the facts and the law into compelling narratives that persuade decision-makers to rule in favor of his clients.

Larry's litigation skills have earned him the highest peer review rating of AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell. He has tried cases as lead counsel, argued appeals in federal and state courts, managed discovery teams analyzing large volumes of electronic records, and resolved cases through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Larry helped a client win a groundbreaking appellate opinion concerning arbitration. He also has litigated intellectual property matters.

Larry clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Wilson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before law school, Larry worked as a newspaper reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. He covered business and diplomatic news in Tokyo for The Japan Times. Larry graduated in the top 2% of his class at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Florida Law Review. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Workshop: We will review the most common legal mistakes that owners make when starting, modifying, or ending their business partnerships. Relying on a handshake, downloading a contract from the Internet, or following a relative's advice are some of the ways businesspeople can sabotage themselves. Of course you need to put things in writing. But how many different scenarios will that piece of paper handle? Rather than providing legal advice, this workshop will focus on the mindset that owners must cultivate to save time and money, stay out of court, and sleep well at night.