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Ryan C. Daugherty Associate LEED Accredited Professional Admitted: 2008, Kentucky Law School: University of Kentucky, 2008 College: University of Georgia - School of Environmental Design, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 2002 Member: Fayette County and Kentucky Bar Associations; American Society of Landscape Architects; US Green Building Council Advocacy Committee; LFUCG Greenspace Commission Biography: Notes Editor, Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, 2007-2008 Author of Eminent Domain Ballot Initiatives: Citizens’ Voice or Crying Wolf?, 21 J. Nat. Resources & Envtl. L. 99, 2006- Born: LaGrange, KY Ryan Colleen Daugherty is an associate in the Lexington, Kentucky office. Ryan is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Planning & Zoning departments, where she focuses on Real Estate and Planning & Zoning disputes, as well as other commercial and employment disputes and family law matters. She is also a LEED Accredited Professional. She joined the firm in 2008 after graduating from the University of Kentucky Colleen of Law. While in law school she served as the Notes editor of the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and worked as a law clerk for E.ON-US in Louisville, Kentucky. 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. Recently, she has successfully argued before the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, Unemployment Insurance Appeals Branch, resulting in the reversal of an improper unemployment award. As part of the firm’s litigation group she has also assisted members of the firm in the following matters: a successful 65.07 Motion for Interlocutory Relief from a temporary junction, in the matter of Creech v. Brown, Fayette Circuit Court No. 09-CI-779, a ruling which was later affirmed by the Kentucky Supreme court; a successful motion to dismiss a contractual claim in the client’s favor, in Faesy v. Durham, Franklin County Circuit Court 09-CI-1898; and a personal injury trial which resulted in a multi-million dollar verdict in the client’s favor, in Lambirth v. Flick, Fayette County Circuit Court No. 06-CI-02088. As part of the firm’s Planning & Zoning Department, she has also worked on various planning matters in Fayette and surrounding counties. In addition to her law practice, she serves as a LFUCG Greenspace Commissioner, and is a member of the United States Green Building Council’s Advocacy Committee, currently serving as their Legislative Task Force Chair. She also serves as a Race for Education mentor, and was recently selected as one of five Emerging Leaders chosen to attend the 2010 Louisville and Lexington joint Leadership Expedition. Prior to attending law school, she earned a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia, and worked as a Planner in the engineering firm of Federal Planning Division of Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan, where she was one of the principal drafters of a Long-Range Component for the Camp Shelby, Mississippi Army National Guard Combat Readiness Center. Ryan is a member of the Kentucky and Fayette County bar associations, and a native of LaGrange, Kentucky.

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