{"id":40030,"date":"2014-01-14T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40030"},"modified":"2014-01-16T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:04:02","slug":"hedge-fund-founder-dondero-faces-former-colleague-in-jury-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/hedge-fund-founder-dondero-faces-former-colleague-in-jury-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Founder Dondero Faces Former Colleague In Jury Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/istock_court_465x288_140110_t460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40035\" alt=\"istock_court_465x288_140110_t460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/istock_court_465x288_140110_t460-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/istock_court_465x288_140110_t460-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/istock_court_465x288_140110_t460.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; James Dondero, a co-founder at\u00a0hedge fund Highland Capital Management, is set to face a jury trial against a former colleague who has an ongoing defamation suit against the firm, The Dallas Morning News reports.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund issued a statement saying that the\u00a0former executive, Patrick Daugherty, had &#8220;unreasonable compensation demands,&#8221; and that he suffered from a &#8220;neurological condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Daugherty\u00a0had testified at Donder&#8217;s\u00a0divorce proceedings (on the side of the wife,)\u00a0attempting to invalidate a prenuptial agreement.\u00a0\u201cOur client was hard-working, dedicated, accomplished and worked for Highland for many years with a high level of performance, they\u2019re punishing Pat Daugherty by not paying him.\u201d His lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe this case was caused by a disgruntled employee attempting to improperly use the legal process to attack Highland\u2019s reputation,\u201d The hedge fund&#8217;s lawyer said, according to The Dallas Morning News. \u201cWe look forward to the opportunity to present our evidence to a jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; James Dondero, a co-founder at\u00a0hedge fund Highland Capital Management, is set to face a jury trial against a former colleague who has an ongoing defamation suit against the firm, The Dallas Morning News reports. The hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40110,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40030\/revisions\/40110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}