The Directors' Handbook

Thomas J. Dougherty retired as a partner of Skadden Arps at the end of 2018.

He specialized in representation and defense of companies and their officers, directors, underwriters and auditors. He has been involved from the boardroom to the courtroom in many significant jury and judge-tried cases litigated in the past thirty-five years, including litigating in defense of corporate actions and disclosures, proxy contests, hostile takeover cases and numerous class action defenses.

Tom Dougherty was born in Boston and educated at local parochial schools and Holy Cross College. He then attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar and received a B. Phil. degree in economics. He was also named a Danforth Foundation Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at that time. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1976, and subsequently was a law clerk to Stephen Breyer, then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, now a Supreme Court Justice.

Paul J. Lockwood is a partner in the Wilmington, Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.   He represents corporations and their directors and officers in lawsuits relating to issues of corporate governance in the Delaware courts and across the country. He has both counseled boards and defended their decisions in the courtroom.

Paul Lockwood grew up in New York and attended Cornell University. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, graduating summa cum laude in 1994. He moved to Delaware to serve as a law clerk to William Chandler of the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has practiced law in Wilmington for twenty-four years.

Graham Robinson is the head of Skadden’s Boston Mergers and Acquisitions Group and also serves as a member of the Policy Committee. His practice specializes in mergers, acquisitions and other transactions in the pharmaceutical, medical device and technology industries globally. Throughout his career he has represented public and private companies, as well as private equity and venture capital funds in some of their most significant deals. He repeatedly has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America. Outside of his work at Skadden, Robinson is a member of the board of fellows of Harvard Medical School, and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also is a member of the board of directors of Project Step, a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify musically talented children from underrepresented Boston communities.

Robinson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 with a degree in History and then received his J.D. from Harvard law School in 1999. Prior to joining Skadden, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.