About Raymond L. Hogge
Raymond L. Hogge Jr. has a steady, practical quality to his professional life. He built a career that moves between courtroom work, municipal advice and continuing legal education. The through-line is labor and employment law, but he has also spent significant time on municipal personnel issues and defense representation.
Hogge earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1983 from the College of William and Mary, where he studied economics and government. He went on to receive his Juris Doctor in 1988 from the University of Richmond. Those academic foundations led quickly to a federal clerkship and an early introduction to trial and appellate practice.
After law school he clerked in 1988 for the Honorable Robert G. Doumar of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. That year in the federal courthouse gave him a close-up view of litigation and judicial decision-making. He carried that experience into practice, representing employers, municipalities and public entities in disputes involving employment policies, personnel actions and related litigation.
Hogge has long been active in professional organizations that reflect his practice interests. He holds memberships in the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, and the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association, where he once chaired the Continuing Legal Education Committee. He also served as chair of the Employment Law Section of the Virginia Association of Defense Lawyers and chaired the Personnel Law Section of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. Outside the bar, he participates in the Hampton Roads chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Those roles have kept him engaged on both substantive law and the professional development side of practice. He frequently works with human resources professionals and municipal counsel on policy and procedure. His practice has covered litigation in state courts and the federal courts that sit within the Fourth Circuit, and he appears in matters involving employment claims, personnel policies and related administrative processes.
Hogge practices from Hogge Law and maintains admissions in Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He continues to counsel employers and public entities on employment and personnel law and handles defense-side litigation and advisory matters. His current practice focuses on labor and employment matters for employers, municipal personnel law, and defense representation.
