Mary Beth Hogan is of counsel in the firm’s New York office. She is the former Co-Chair of the Litigation Department and served on the Firm’s Management Committee. Her practice focused on sensitive investigations for educational institutions, corporations and other organizations, including board-directed independent investigations. Boards and senior leaders have turned to Ms. Hogan as a trusted advisor on their most sensitive matters that require expertise and judgment across a number of areas, including governance, crisis management and broad experience across a number of legal disciplines. Earlier in her career, she represented clients involved in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions involving the Department of Justice, State Attorneys General, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and New York’s Department of Financial Services.
Ms. Hogan is recognized as a leading lawyer and as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation, which quotes one client as saying “Mary Beth has been efficient, responsive, proactive and expert in her work with us. She is conscious of our budget limitations and [is] very respectful.” She was also named in Crain’s inaugural list of “Leading Women Lawyers in New York City,” which recognizes “trailblazers who found multiple paths to excellence.”
Ms. Hogan is ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA (2024), where clients describe her as “extraordinary” and “fantastic.” Sources also highlight the “outstanding” “depth and breadth of her knowledge, experience, diplomacy and sensitivity.” She is said to be “very practical and wise” with “an unbelievable grasp of politics.” Clients have also praised her “top-notch skills in drafting and analysis,” describing her as “a fantastic and very deft lawyer who has handled a number of very high-profile investigations.” Ms. Hogan is also recommended for Financial Services (Litigation) and International Litigation by The Legal 500 US (2024), which has described her as “intellectual, thorough and knowledgeable.”
The New York Law Journal named Ms. Hogan a “Top Women in Law” in 2016 and in 2015 she was named “Lawyer of the Year for Private Practice” for gender diversity in the profession by Chambers & Partners. Ms. Hogan was also recognized in Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching” issue (2014). She also received the Chambers USA Women in Law award for “Up and Coming Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation (2012) and received the “Law and Society” Award from New York Lawyers For the Public Interest in 2018. Rutgers Law School awarded her its 2014 “Distinguished Alumni Award” and also the Eric Neisser Public Service Award in 2006.
A respected author and sought-after speaker, Ms. Hogan has spoken at New York University’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Practical Law Institute’s Hot Issues in Executive Compensation, New York City Bar Association’s panel on “New Strategies for Conducting Sexual Harassment Investigations and Litigation” and the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Annual Conference. She was also featured in a 2013 documentary on the New York Times website, “Great Expectations for Female Lawyers,” a follow-up from a 2001 New York Times Magazine article in which 21 women lawyers at Debevoise were profiled and interviewed about the career prospects for women in law firms.
Ms. Hogan is President of the Board of Directors of Nazareth Housing and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Armory Foundation, where she chairs the Governance Committee. She was recently named as an Honorary Director of Catalyst, in recognition of her many years on that Board and chairing its Nominations & Governance Committee. Ms. Hogan is a former collegiate runner and a nationally ranked age-group triathlete.
Ms. Hogan received her A.B. cum laude from Princeton University in 1985, and her J.D., with high honors, from Rutgers University in 1990, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the articles editor for the Women’s Rights Law Reporter. She clerked for the Hon. Gary S. Stein, Supreme Court of New Jersey (1990–1991).