Kevin M Hogan

Practice Areas

Kevin manages day-to-day operations of the firm and leads its administrative departments, practice group leaders and office leaders. As Managing Partner, Kevin also leads the Governing Committee in setting the firm’s strategic goals and initiatives. His role focuses on implementing plans to accomplish the Firm’s objectives to assure Phillips Lytle’s position as a premier source of sophisticated legal counsel, a trusted legal advisor to its clients, and a destination for exceptional, diverse legal talent in its markets.

With a practice focused on both transactional and litigation sides of environmental law, Kevin is a leading “Top Ranked” lawyer in Environmental Law in Chambers USA. An effective and efficient legal advisor, Kevin counsels clients on environmental compliance with respect to permits, investigations and enforcement proceedings by state and federal agencies, and on environmental issues arising in corporate, commercial and lending transactions. An experienced litigator, with a track record of successfully resolving disputes, Kevin zealously defends clients in environmental cost-recovery claims, toxic exposure lawsuits, and engineering and professional malpractice claims. He also represents clients in disputes involving patents, licenses, trademarks and other intellectual property. Kevin is known for his exceptional negotiation skills, and serves as a court-designated mediator in the Western District of New York.

Career

Joined the firm in 1992, elected Partner in 2000. Kevin currently serves as Phillips Lytle's Managing Partner. He previously served as the firm's Environment and Energy Practice Team Leader and Trial Department Administrator. Judicial Clerkship: Hon. Richard Cardamone, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1991-92.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER), Law Practice Division, Litigation Section; Bar Association of Erie County, Environmental Law Committee, Federal Practice and Procedure Committee; Defense Research Institute;

International Association of Defense Counsel; New York State Bar Association, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Environmental & Energy Law Section, Trial Lawyers Section; Western New York Trial Lawyers Association

Publications

He writes extensively on environmental topics.

Personal

Vermont Law School, JD summa cum laude, 1991; University of Connecticut, BS Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, 1983.