The Northern Virginia office was established in 1985 and has proudly served the Northern Virginia community for a quarter century. The office currently has 38 lawyers (20 partners/counsel and 18 associates).
Location
The office is located in Tysons Corner, the “downtown” of Fairfax County — a county more populous than the cities of Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Miami, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, or Seattle. Tysons Corner is also easily accessible to Washington, D.C. (Hogan Lovells’ largest U.S. office). In April 2009 the office moved from its long-standing Greensboro Drive location into a suite in the newly constructed Park Place II on Jones Branch Drive.
Interesting notes
Our corporate and securities, intellectual property, and litigation, arbitration and employment practices were each ranked in Chambers USA 2011, as were nine individual lawyers, including lawyers from each of these practice groups. Members of our legal team also regularly earn top rankings from Virginia Super Lawyers and the Virginia Business list of Legal Elite, among others.
Our corporate lawyers have handled more than US$33 billion in mergers and acquisition transactions since 2000. Our litigators have been recognized for their experience in class actions and individual cases from Virginia to California and beyond — we represent clients in more than 40 federal and state jurisdictions throughout the country, achieving groundbreaking victories.
Our team of employment lawyers defends employers in federal and state courts and administrative agencies throughout the country — with particular focus on employment disputes and trade secret/non-competition cases in Virginia, Maryland, and District of Columbia courts. Our IP practice includes lawyers dedicated to IP licensing, development and acquisition transactions, cloud computing, outsourcing, telecommunications, e-commerce and mobile commerce transactions and social media, as well as brand management, trademark prosecution, and litigation.
Contact
For further information about our Northern Virginia office or our summer associate program, please contact:
Lynn Herron
Associate Recruitment Manager
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Park Place II Ninth Floor
7930 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102
JoinHoganLovellsMD@hoganlovells.com
Our work
Practice areas
Lawyers in our Northern Virginia office are widely recognized for their experience in a wide range of practice areas, including:
- Corporate and securities
- Litigation, arbitration and employment
- Intellectual property
- Government regulatory
Significant clients
- ACON Investments
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
- Chesapeake Lodging Trust
- EADS
- Ford Motor Company
- Graceway Pharmaceuticals
- Jane Goodall Institute
- News Corporation Limited
- PEPCO
- Public Storage
- Strayer University
- Time Warner Cable
Summer program
Size
We expect to have 2-4 summer associates in 2012.
Assignments and training
Summer associates are encouraged to work with lawyers in all practice groups on a wide range of assignments and attend training events hosted by the Hogan Lovells Academy.
Recruitment
We look for candidates with the intellect, creativity, skills, and commitment needed to provide our clients with the high quality and effective service they have come to expect from Hogan Lovells. Lawyers from the Northern Virginia office conduct interviews at several area law schools. We also accept resumes from schools at which we do not conduct on-campus interviews. Please contact your law school's career services or placement office to sign up for an on-campus interview.
Billable hours
Associates can chose between 1800 and 1950 billable hours. Credit is given for up to 100 pro bono hours.
Pro bono commitment
All lawyers at Hogan Lovells are encouraged to become involved in legal representation in the public interest. Our Pro Bono practice has handled hundreds of matters in recent years, including high-profile “impact cases” of national importance.
Our Northern Virginia office lawyers have been involved in virtually every major case handled by the Pro Bono practice in recent years, and have taken on a number of significant projects of our own, including:
- Northern Virginia office lawyers spearheaded a trial team that won a multi-million dollar jury verdict for the victim of a foreclosure scam in a case in D.C. Superior Court, recently affirmed on appeal by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
- We staff a legal clinic night at a Northern Virginia homeless shelter once a month, and received the Fairfax Bar Foundation's Legal Practice of the Year award for this project in 2000.
- We have teamed with lawyers in other offices to handle major post-conviction work representing persons incarcerated in Virginia.
- We provided Latitudes — an organization seeking to promote relations between Latinos and African-Americans — with corporate and tax assistance.
- We handle a variety of environmental, employment, and intellectual property matters for pro bono clients.
- One of our lawyers was recently named the Fairfax County Bar Association Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.
Community outreach
We have established ourselves in the community through our involvement in numerous bar, business, and nonprofit organizations, including the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, Northern Virginia Technology Counsel, and Business Alliance.
Throughout the year we hold a variety of community service events designed to give our lawyers and staff an opportunity to contribute to the greater good in the communities in which we live and work. These events involve a personal investment of time, service, and/or money that demonstrates how our office can organize as a group to make the most impact. Our recent events include:
- Eyeglass recycling program with Lions Club International, involving the collection of old eyeglasses for distribution to the needy.
- Mobile blood drives in support of Children's Hospital.
- Legal Food Frenzy food drive benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank, organized in conjunction with the Virginia Bar Association.
- Weight loss challenge for employees who contribute donations of nonperishable food for a local food bank at weekly weigh-ins.
- Back to School drive for monetary donations for backpacks and school supplies for children in need.
- Wii Can Make a Difference Contest where teams donate an entry fee to compete in a Wii Mario Kart tournament, with proceeds benefiting the firm's global and local Touch charities.
- Dress Down Jeans Week during which employees can wear jeans to work in exchange for a donation benefiting our Touch charities.
- Toy drive for the U.S. Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program providing new toys for needy children.
Office-specific benefits
We are lucky to have the feel of a small, close-knit legal practice with the benefits (diversity of practice and clients, resources, and quality of work) that come from being part of a large, preeminent law firm.