Brian Hogan, Esq.
Brian Patrick Hogan began work with The Hawkins Center of Rubicon Programs of Richmond, CA in 2007 and became the lead Staff Attorney of the Legal and Workforce Services Partnership (LaWS), Rubicon’s Legal Barriers to Employment and Reentry Legal Services program, in 2008. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Juris Doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction. He began his legal career as an Instructor of Political Science and Legal Administration at Greensboro College in Greensboro, NC, where he taught courses in Business Law and Civil Procedure from within a Critical Legal Studies framework. His primary practice areas at Rubicon Programs are Social Security Law, the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record, Legal Barriers to Employment, and more generally, Poverty Law.
Brian is actively involved in the planning stage of the recently formed Contra Costa Reentry Initiative. He also serves on the San Francisco Reentry Council’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civic Engagement of the Formerly Incarcerated. Brian’s work in Rubicon’s LaWS Partnership was recently recognized as a “best practice” in the emerging field of reentry legal and employment services for formerly incarcerated individuals. The East Bay Community Foundation’s recent study, “Putting the East Bay to Work — Sustainable Jobs for the Underemployed” (September 2009, page 58), specifically highlights Hawkins Center’s LaWS Program as an innovative best practice serving the formerly incarcerated population. The East Bay Community Foundation study compiles recommendations for employers, training institutions, service providers and policy makers to provide employment for “low-income, disadvantaged, impoverished, underserved, and underrepresented” people in the East Bay.
In his spare time, Brian enjoys exploring new music, reading critical theory, and taking in the eclectic eateries of the Bay Area with his wife.
