Tadhg is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, where his practice focuses on appellate and complex civil litigation. He has extensive experience handling appeals in state and federal courts throughout the country and has obtained favorable results for a diverse range of clients, from federal prisoners to foreign presidents, big companies to small towns. Among other recent successes, Tadhg helped a municipality overturn a $6.8 million verdict in the Connecticut Appellate Court, and helped a dental practice overturn a $3.7 million verdict in the Georgia Supreme Court. Tadhg has also been called on to craft amicus curiae briefs advancing the positions of clients in the U.S. and Connecticut Supreme Courts.
At the trial level, Tadhg has represented clients confronting a variety of legal challenges, including defamation and libel suits, consumer class actions, alleged Title IX violations, and lawsuits concerning institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Among other favorable outcomes, he recently persuaded a trial court to dismiss a sexual-abuse lawsuit brought by 19 plaintiffs against a national youth services organization and successfully defended a Connecticut municipality in a bench trial relating to the validity of its mayoral election.
Tadhg has devoted significant time to pro bono matters at the trial and appellate levels. Along with Wiggin and Dana attorney Ben Daniels, he runs the Appellate Litigation Project at Yale Law School, supervising students representing indigent clients in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits. He has been honored by Connecticut Legal Services for his pro bono work on behalf of a single mother facing a defamation lawsuit and received Wiggin and Dana’s Pro Bono Achievement Award in connection with his successful appeal of an Espionage Act sentence in the Second Circuit.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Tadhg A.J. Dooley
- Supreme Court Update: Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC (18-938), Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander (no. 18 1165) - (Posted On Monday, January 20, 2020)
- Supreme Court Update: Rotkiske v. Klemm (no. 18-328), Peter v. NantKwest (no. 18-801), Thompson v. Hebdon (no. 19-122) - (Posted On Sunday, December 29, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Bostock v. Clayton County, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, Trump v. NAACP, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York, Espinoza v. Montana Dep’t of Revenue, June Medical Services v. Gee - (Posted On Wednesday, October 09, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), Food Marketing Institute v. Argus (No. 18-481), United States v. Haymond (No. 17-1762) - (Posted On Friday, July 05, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Department of Commerce v. New York (No. 18-966), Rucho v. Common Cause (No. 18-422), Mitchell v. Wisconsin (No. 18-6210), Carpenter v. Murphy (No. 17-1107), Iancu v. Brunetti (No. 18-302) - (Posted On Saturday, June 29, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Knick v. Township of Scott (No. 17-647), NC Dep’t of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust (No. 18-457), PDR Network v. Carlton Harris Chiropractic (No. 17-1705), and McDonough v. Smith (No. 18-485). - (Posted On Wednesday, June 26, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: American Legion v. American Humanist Association (No. 17-1717) and Gundy v. United States (No. 17-6086) - (Posted On Monday, June 24, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Return Mail Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service (No. 17-1594), Quarles v. United States (No. 17-778), Parker Drilling Management Services v. Newton (No. 18-389) - (Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Taggart v. Lorenzen (No. 18-489), Fort Bend County v. Davis (No. 18-525), Azar v. Allina Health Services (No. 17-1484), Mont v. United States (No. 17-8995) - (Posted On Monday, June 10, 2019)
- Supreme Court Update: Apple, Inc. v. Pepper (No. 17-204), Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt (No. 17-1299), Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Billy Joe Hunt (No. 18-315) - (Posted On Friday, May 24, 2019)
Tadhg Dooley is a Partner in Wiggin and Dana's Litigation Department, where his practice focuses on appellate and complex civil litigation, also drafting amicus curiae briefs advancing the positions of clients in the U.S. and Connecticut Supreme Courts. Mr. Dooley was named a 2019 NLR Go-To Thought Leader for his regular and comprehensive overview of U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) litigation co-written with Wiggin and Dana colleague David Roth. Dooley & Roth's Supreme Court updates are well thought out and provide the National Law Review's readers with a timely interpretation of the issues and before the Court.