Thomas S. Dougherty is a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS). In 2015, he was detailed from CCIPS to the DOJ’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial, Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) to serve in Southeast Asia as the first ever International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (ICHIP) Attorney Advisor for Cybercrime. As the ICHIP, he was responsible for implementing justice sector technical assistance programs designed to strengthen the cybercrime, intellectual property crime and digital evidence capabilities of Southeast Asian judges, prosecutors, investigators, and digital forensic analysts. In August 2020, Mr. Dougherty transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia to open the new European ICHIP for Cybercrime office.

Mr. Dougherty began his legal career in 1995 as a prosecutor in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He left active duty in 2001 to take a position as an Assistant United States Attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he prosecuted cybercrime, financial fraud, income tax fraud and narcotic offenses. From 2007 to 2013, he served as a Senior Trial Attorney in CCIPS in Washington, DC where he prosecuted cybercrime, computer-enabled crime and intellectual property offenses in federal courts across the United States.

In 2013, Mr. Dougherty, who is also an U.S. Army Reservist, deployed on active duty to Afghanistan to serve as the Legal Advisor to the Afghan National Army’s 209th Corps, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Service.

From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Dougherty served as the DOJ OPDAT Legal Advisor for Trial Advocacy and Prosecutorial Reform at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Currently, Mr. Dougherty is an assistant professor in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s Department of Law, where he teaches U.S. Constitutional Law. Mr. Dougherty has also taught courses on cybercrime, digital evidence, criminal law and intellectual property at several institutions including the University of Lucerne Summer Law Academy for Human Rights Implementation in Lucerne, Switzerland, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania and the DOJ’s National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.

Mr. Dougherty holds a bachelor of arts degree in government and law from Lafayette College, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.