Ms. Hogan is a Shareholder in the Denver Office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. A member of the Litigation Group, her practice focuses on commercial litigation and employment matters. Ms. Hogan originally joined the firm in 1988 and became a Shareholder in 1993. She left the firm in 2005 to join Level 3 Communications as the VP of Litigation where she managed all outside litigation and related analyses in connection with the company's six strategic acquisitions it undertook in the two years she was in the role. Ms. Hogan, who spent the first several years of her career as a Deputy District Attorney in Denver, has been representing businesses and individuals on a wide spectrum of issues for the last twenty years. She took a pivotal Americans with Disabilities Act case from its inception to a successful ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court and has first-chaired a number of successful jury trials in state and federal courts, as well as arbitrations in a variety of forums. In addition to her representation of clients in commercial litigation matters, she has provided counseling, training and representation on employment issues, in connection with which she developed three nationally distributed video and on-line training courses on harassment and discrimination issues. She is the past chair of the Colorado Bar Association Labor and Employment Section and has authored a chapter entitled "Pleadings and Motions in Business and Commercial Cases" in the publication Commercial Litigation in Colorado. Ms. Hogan has taught courses in Criminal Law and Ethics at Metropolitan State College and lectured on trial advocacy issues. She has also served as a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). |