Carrie Hogan is recognized as a leading practitioner, stand up trial lawyer, and highly skilled negotiator in complex, high-stakes product liability matters. She was named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer in 2023 and is one of the founding members of the Jones Day Chicago Office having built a successful product liability litigation practice over nearly three decades. Creativity, tenacity, and total client loyalty are Carrie's specialties. Carrie is a big picture problem solver who is not afraid to take on projects that others may see as overwhelming.
Carrie tried more than 25 cases in state and federal courts across the country as well as argued numerous appeals in both state and federal courts. Clients turn to her in catastrophic injury cases often times involving complex scientific subject matter. Carrie's strength, among others, is her ability to dismantle the expert testimony of her opponents. She has defended the Firm's top clients oftentimes in contentious or unpopular litigation including smoker cases and lead paint litigation. She also acts as national coordinating counsel in litigation on behalf of one of the country's leading diagnostic laboratories.
Carrie was a member of the Board of Directors of The Night Ministry, one of Chicago's oldest and most respected service organizations, from 2016 to 2022. She was appointed as a Hearing Officer for the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Committee in 2013, and promoted to a Chair in 2020. Carrie is also the former president of the Women's Bar Foundation, having held that title from 2010 to 2012.
Experiencia
Medicare and the Settling Tort Defendant, Practice Perspectives: Product Liability & Tort Litigation
Meet the Women Rainmakers! Carol Hogan, ABA LawPractice Today
- June 7, 2012
Jones Day Chicago 2012 MCLE University - October 27, 2011
Increased Fraud Based Claims Against Your Product Client, ABA 2011 Women In Products Liability Conference - August 5, 2011
Allies, Influence, Power and Politics in the Office, ABA 2011 Annual Meeting - March 24, 2011
Extraordinary, Powerful & Influential Women, National Diversity Council's Second Annual Illinois Women's Conference - 2004
Public Nuisance -- The Super-Sized Threat to the Food Industry and Advertising Directed to Children: A Unique Target Group, The Legal and Strategic Guide to Minimizing Liability for Obesity Seminar - 1999
When Mike Wallace Comes Calling -- Crisis Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers / Jones Day Seminar on Creative Approaches to Product Liability Law - June 13, 1996
Toxic Tort Issues -- Identifying the Issues, Spoliation of Evidence, Medical Causation -- The Plaintiff's Opening Statement, National Conference on Maximizing Insurance Recovery and Minimizing Costs for Manufactured Gas and Other Environmental Liabilities (An Exclusive Briefing for Electric and Gas Utilities)
- Loyola University Chicago (J.D. cum laude 1989; Law Review); University of Illinois (B.A. 1986)
- Illinois; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois, Indiana, and Eastern District of Wisconsin; and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits
Chicago's Top Rated Lawyers in Litigation, Chicago Tribune (2015)
Named as "Leading Women Lawyers" (July 2014) and "Leading Commercial Litigation Lawyer" (April 2014) by Chicago Lawyer
"The Most Powerful and Influential Women in Illinois," National Diversity Council (March 2011)
"Woman Rainmaker of the Month," ABA Journal (March 2011)
Profiled in Power and Influence for Lawyers: How to use it to develop business and advance your career by Susan Letterman White (2011, West Publishing)