Mr. Donoghue’s practice focuses primarily on civil and criminal litigation matters.  He has appeared for argument on dispositive motions heard by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey.  Mr. Donoghue has taken numerous depositions, including those of an expert witness and a high-ranking official of a New York State executive department, and briefed matters ranging from the admission of expert testimony to the proper construction of the core federal civil rights statute.

J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law, 2002

• Order of the Coif
• Staff Editor and Note Development Editor, New York University Law Review
• Leslie Glass Fellow, Center for Criminal Justice
• Allen Scholar

M.A., Politics, Princeton University, 2000
B.A., with high honors in the College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University, 1995

Honorable Rosemary Barkett, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2002 - 2003

New York, 2003

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2004
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2004
U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court, 2007

New York City Bar Association
New York State Bar Association