Jason Hoggan is special counsel in the firm's Dallas office, the Deputy of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice Group, and a member of the firm's AI, Robotics and Quantum industry team.
As a former federal law enforcement agent and an experienced litigator, Jason understands what is at stake when individuals and corporations face government investigations and enforcement matters, criminal prosecutions, complex civil disputes, or other business crises requiring creative legal solutions. Using a strategic and detail-oriented approach, he helps clients resolve or avoid these high-stress problems and their collateral consequences in a practical way while minimizing their impact on the client's life, business, and reputation.
Jason represents individuals, organizations, and corporations of all sizes in a broad array of complex criminal and civil matters with a focus on government and internal investigations and white collar defense. He advises and advocates for clients in a range of industries—including healthcare, financial services, government contracting, technology and artificial intelligence, and energy—who are facing (or seeking to avoid) scrutiny from law enforcement or regulatory authorities from the Department of Justice, the Securities & Exchange Commission, federal and state departments of Health & Human Services, the Department of Defense, and state attorneys general's offices, among others. He is also a seasoned litigator, representing clients in federal and state courts at all phases of civil enforcement litigation, criminal prosecutions, and complex commercial disputes—from e-discovery and motions practice through trial, sentencing, and on appeal.
Jason brings a consistent, outcome-oriented approach to every matter. From internal compliance assessments, subpoena responses, whistleblower investigations, or voluntary self-disclosures, to high-stakes, federal investigations or international criminal prosecutions, Jason offers strategic insights to solve problems and achieve optimal solutions as efficiently as possible. If and when internal investigations reveal that the client was the victim of financial fraud or other criminal misconduct, Jason can also leverage his law enforcement background and connections to build a comprehensive criminal referral package and then present it to appropriate law enforcement agencies and prosecutors for action.
In both the investigative and litigation context, Jason's matters involve alleged misconduct that implicates statutes and legal issues that are as varied and complex as his clients. He has extensive experience representing individuals and businesses when those allegations concern the following:
- Healthcare fraud and abuse, including the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and the Stark Law;
- Securities fraud and other financial misconduct such as accounting fraud, tax fraud, embezzlement, and mail or wire fraud;
- Insider trading and market manipulation;
- Money laundering;
- KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) compliance failures;
- Civil and criminal antitrust, bid rigging, and other anti-competitive conduct;
- The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act;
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and various computer and cybercrime investigations; and
- The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
As an early adopter of generative AI tools in white collar practice, Jason routinely tests and applies purpose-built legal AI platforms to investigation and litigation workflows to improve efficiency and client outcomes—without diminishing the judgment-driven approach that defines high-stakes legal representation. In the investigative context, he deploys AI-assisted workflows for large-volume document analysis, audit and CID/subpoena response, witness preparation, and factual development and synthesis—tasks well-suited to the document-intensive, privilege-sensitive demands of government and internal investigations. In the litigation context, he synthesizes legal-specific AI platforms and established research tools to supplement and accelerate traditional workflows and produce thoroughly vetted, citation-verified work product. Jason's approach to AI adoption reflects the same discipline he brings to legal strategy: the goal is not to replace lawyer judgment, but to provide an ethics-grounded framework for deploying AI where it adds genuine, verifiable value.
Before completing law school at Georgetown University Law Center, Jason worked for six years in the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. As a special agent and Air Force officer, he conducted felony-level criminal investigations on individuals subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, directed investigations of suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay Prison, and managed counterintelligence collections affecting Air Force assets and personnel worldwide. Jason is also a lifelong competitive athlete who played intercollegiate tennis at the Air Force Academy and even qualified to compete in the World CrossFit Games shortly after law school. Now, Jason brings this same grit and competitive spirit to his law practice, working tirelessly to achieve success on behalf of his clients.