ERIC HAGEMAN

COUNSEL

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Eric Hageman defends individuals, institutions, and corporations from reputational attacks.  He has significant litigation experience at all levels of state and federal court, having authored scores of merits and amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeals and countless major motions in trial courts across the country.  His clients represent a wide array of industries and include several high-net-worth individuals and half the Fortune 20.

Eric has successfully litigated several statutory and constitutional challenges to federal, state, and local governmental actions.  He uses this experience to help clients address reputational attacks from government officials who hide behind complex immunity doctrines to avoid tort liability.  Eric also has significant experience representing institutional, nonprofit, and religious clients, whose reputational concerns can be particularly delicate.

Before joining Clare Locke, Eric was an appellate attorney in the Washington, D.C., offices of two multinational law firms, where he worked on shareholder disputes, broken-deal litigation, separation-of-powers issues, and arbitrability disputes, as well as litigation under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Alien Tort Statute.

Eric was also a law clerk to the Honorable Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to the Honorable Thomas Schroeder of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

He earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and published work on the Takings Clause and on the obligations of judicial candor. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied in Rome and was a member of the School of Architecture Curriculum Committee.

Eric is an Antonin Scalia Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding.  His legal and jurisprudential scholarship has appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, U.S. Constitutional Law: Rights & Liberties, Law and Liberty, and Mirror of Justice, among other publications.  Eric’s commentary on the Supreme Court has been quoted in Bloomberg.

ADMISSIONS

• Commonwealth of Virginia
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Circuits
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia