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E. Desmond
Hogan
Partner,
Washington, D.C.
Desmond Hogan’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation involving intricate issues in class actions, complex commercial litigation, and governmental investigations. Des has litigated matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Des represents a variety of clients, including several Fortune 100 companies in the health care, food, automotive, technology, energy, and media industries.
Recently, Des successfully handled a class certification hearing on behalf of dozens of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in a nationwide MDL provider class action which was thereafter dismissed; he also secured the dismissal of separate class actions against a major food company and a major technology company at the initial pleading stage and after reversal of class certification by the Connecticut Supreme Court, he helped win the dismissal by the trial court of nearly all remaining plaintiffs’ claims against a large health care company.
In a sensitive matter against a major company concerning alleged misconduct of a former executive, Des helped secure the dismissal of all claims against the company on a motion to dismiss and in a case raising significant and sophisticated First Amendment issues, Des assisted in gaining summary judgment for a large media client facing a multimillion dollar defamation suit related to a probing documentary it made about the USS IOWA explosion.
Des has also been a hands-on leader in several multidefendant class actions, recently being selected by large joint defense groups in two different cases to depose the lead named plaintiffs, being tapped to argue the opposition to class certification in separate industry-wide class actions, and leading negotiations and litigation for a joint defense group on critical discovery issues.
In matters involving governmental agencies, Des has successfully represented clients facing investigations by congressional committees, federal agencies, and state attorneys general, including a major congressionally chartered charity responding to a congressional investigation related to its response to recent national disasters and to its governance structure.
In the civil rights community, Des is well-respected for his commitment to pro bono matters. He was co-lead counsel in a highly publicized civil rights trial that resulted in the exoneration of 35 people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. Des was honored for his work — which is detailed in the highly acclaimed book Tulia by Nate Blakeslee and is the subject of an upcoming movie — by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His other pro bono work includes such diverse matters as representing black farmers harmed by discriminatory loan practices of the federal government; representing a community organization against a slum lord in a trial of first impression and winning an injunction that helped clean up a troubled neighborhood; and in three separate matters, securing the release of clients who were wrongly incarcerated. Among his on-going pro bono matters is a class action discrimination case for black Secret Service Agents that has been profiled by the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, CNN, and NPR.
Des is the firm’s Deputy Managing Partner for Lateral Recruiting and Integration and was a founding member of the firm’s Diversity Committee. Before joining Hogan & Hartson, Des served as a law clerk to The Honorable Judge Wiley Y. Daniel, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
Des is a graduate of Howard University School of Law where he was valedictorian and the first student to graduate summa cum laude in the law school's history.
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