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Joseph P. Hoag

Partner

T 206.757.8299 Seattle
I guide clients through the employment law morass so they can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.
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Joseph Hoag’s mission is to help clients solve their employment law problems, whether that means advising clients in technical areas like background checks and occupational safety and health, or representing clients in court or administrative hearings. Joseph works hard to understand his clients’ concerns and how those concerns fit within the larger picture. “If my clients’ lives are not easier after talking with me, I have failed.”

Joseph represents clients in myriad employment claims, including discrimination, retaliation, failure to accommodate, and wrongful termination. He has achieved success for his clients at all levels of state and federal litigation, from prevailing in dispositive motions and successfully defending those victories in state and federal courts of appeals, to successfully defending clients in bench or jury trials. Joseph has extensive, nationwide experience counseling and representing clients with regard to occupational safety and health laws and interactions with federal OSHA and state agencies like Washington State DOSH and Cal-OSHA. Joseph has also developed a specialized, nationwide practice regarding employment background checks and the complex, technical, and unintuitive obligations imposed by overlapping federal, state, and local laws.

Practice Highlights

Occupational safety and health

Nationwide OSHA practice; has advised and represented clients in over 100 separate matters involving federal or state occupational safety and health agencies.

Employment litigation and counseling

Advocates for clients, from single plaintiff to class actions; successfully achieves client litigation goals, whether that be resolving disputes early and on favorable terms, or prevailing in litigation, including in dispositive motions, jury trials, and appeals in federal and state courts.

Fair Credit Reporting Act/Background checks

Advises regarding and helps establish employment background check programs that comply with the current quagmire of federal, state, and municipal background check obligations.
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Admitted to Practice

  • Washington
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Washington
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 2009
    • Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
    • President, Harvard Student Chapter, J. Reuben Clark Law Society
    • Research Assistant, Professor Guhan Subramanian, Corporate Law
  • B.S., Psychology, Brigham Young University, 2005, magna cum laude
    • Dean's List
    • Golden Key Honor Society
    • Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Utah State Courts

Memberships & Affiliations

    • Board Member and Secretary, MS Helping Hands – The Donor Closet
    • Former Board Member, Excel Public Charter School

Background

    • Extern, Hon. Ronald B. Leighton, Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington, Tacoma, Wash., 2010
    • Judicial Clerk, Justice James M. Johnson, Washington State Supreme Court, Olympia, Wash., 2009-2010
    • Extern, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts, Criminal Division, Boston, 2007
    • Summer Intern, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Policy and Legislation, Washington, D.C., 2007
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