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Maynard & Hogan Staff
Named as among the Top Attorneys in Silicon Valley. Year after year, San Jose Magazine has repeatedly named Douglas Scott Maynard & the firm (formerly called Maynard Law Offices) as among the Top Attorneys in Silicon Valley. Mr. Maynard and the firm have consistently received this honor in separate polls and queries both of opposing attorneys and of clients. These polls and queries were independently conducted by the magazine.
Attorney-client teamwork
The firm believes that high quality legal representation requires clients to work equally hard with us, as a team. There is no question that attorney-client teamwork can mean the difference between winning and losing a case. And because obtaining a fair result often requires risk and sheer nerve, we also ask our clients to stand with us taking a strong negotiating stance whenever appropriate.
Attorneys' Qualifications
Another distinctive policy of Maynard & Hogan is that the firm strives to hire primarily attorneys with substantial experience. This philosophy ensures that only well-qualified attorneys perform the majority of the firm's services rather than the more common practice of assigning most of the work to inexperienced, younger attorneys who customarily bill many hours to the client for work of limited value. To the extent possible, routine matters at Maynard Law Offices are handled by the staff under the direct supervision of an experienced attorney.
Douglas Scott Maynard
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| Admitted to: |
California Bar, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, U.S. Tax Court |
| Education: |
University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1974); Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1979); New York University (LL.M.-Taxation 1980) |
| Articles Editor: |
Santa Clara Law Review |
| Author: |
"Federal Housing Loans: Is State Mortgage Law Pre-empted?" Santa Clara Law Review Vol. 19, 1979 |
| Member: |
State Bar of California |
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Descended from settlers arriving in the Santa Clara Valley in 1853, Douglas Scott Maynard is a seventh generation Santa Clara County resident. Due to a long family history in the County, there are many street names and place names honoring his family members, ancestors and cousins. Included among these are: Hamilton Avenue, Stevens Creek Boulevard and the City of Campbell.
Mr. Maynard was born in San Jose, California and grew up in the area originally known as "Hamilton" (which is between the Willow Glen area of San Jose and the City of Campbell). He attended Del Mar High School, a part of the Campbell Union High School District. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1974. After working in construction for two years to pay for his education, he went on to attend the Santa Clara University where he graduated with his law degree, a Juris Doctorate in 1979. After passing the Bar that same year, he obtained a graduate degree in taxation (LL.M. Taxation) from New York University in 1980.
Mr. Maynard originally founded the law firm in 1979 when he obtained his law degree. The firm moved to its current location in early 1981.
As part of the practice, Mr. Maynard has traveled extensively throughout the world handling local, regional and international legal issues. His work and personal interests have taken him to over 55 countries on 5 continents and he has extensive familiarity with and fascination of the cultures and peoples of many far away places.
Mr. Maynard is a self-made man having spent his early years as the second of seven children in an entrepreneurial family. His father, one of the pioneers of cable television, died in an airplane accident when Mr. Maynard was eleven years old. As the second oldest, in addition to assuming additional family responsibilities, Mr. Maynard put himself through college, law school and graduate school.
Starting the practice on his own without any outside sources of funding, Mr. Maynard built the firm through hard work and perseverance over a period of many years. Because he learned the practice of law through the school of hard knocks, Mr. Maynard is an experienced and tough negotiator, able to take on the most difficult of adversaries. It is his philosophies based on these life experiences and his guidance that have inspired the firm's vision and practice, guiding and changing the practice philosophies of all of the attorneys in the firm.
Moira A. Hogan
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| Admitted to: |
California Bar, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California |
| Education: |
University of Notre Dame (B.B.A. 1988, Magna Cum Laude); Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1993) |
| Managing Editor: |
Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 33, 1992-1993 |
| Author: |
"Life After Death: Corporate Dissolution and the Continuing Corporate and Shareholder Liability Doctrine in California." Santa Clara Law Review Vol. 33, 1993 |
| Semi-Finalist: |
Santa Clara University School of Law 1993 Moot Court Competition |
| Member: |
State Bar of California, American Bar Association |
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Moira A. Hogan is a California native who was born and raised in Santa Clara County.
The daughter of first-generation Irish/Italian immigrants, Ms. Hogan attended Presentation High School in San Jose, during which time she studied music and classical ballet and competed in and won various talent competitions throughout the State of California. Focused on eventually pursuing a career in law, Ms. Hogan attended the University Of Notre Dame, where she studied business and literature. A true devotee of the Fightin' Irish, Ms. Hogan was a varsity athlete at ND and she obtained her bachelor's degree in Business administration in 1988.
In order to obtain some significant business experience prior to attending law school, Ms. Hogan worked in Marketing and in Finance for Oracle Corporation from 1988 until she began her law school career at Santa Clara University School of Law in 1990. While pursuing her Juris Doctor degree there, Ms. Hogan began working as a law clerk at Maynard Law Offices (now the Law Offices of Maynard and Hogan) and she was also selected to serve as Managing Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review Journal. During her tenure as Managing Editor, she researched and published: "Life after Death: Corporate Dissolution and the Continuing Corporate and Shareholder Liability Doctrine in California." She also competed in and won second place in the law school's moot court competition prior to receiving her law degree in May 1993.
Immediately upon graduation, Ms. Hogan joined Maynard Law Offices on a full time basis and began working as a regular attorney upon passing the Bar Exam in 1993. Throughout her career, Ms. Hogan has successfully handled cases in all areas of the firm's practice. Due to her many contributions to the firm and its clientele, she was promoted to and offered the position of a shareholder in the firm in January 2001. Ms. Hogan is an energetic and driven attorney who is sincerely dedicated to achieving her client's objectives in all of her cases. She brings to her clients a warm demeanor and personal charm that contributes to her success in all aspects of her practice, and which is particularly well suited to her successful presence in the courtroom.
Stelios A. Harris
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Admitted to: |
California Bar |
| Education: |
University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 2002 magna cum laude); Indiana University School of Law (J.D. 2002, cum laude) |
| Member: |
State Bar of California |
Born to Greek immigrants, Stelios Harris is the first generation of his family to be born in the United States. He was born and raised in Philadelphia where he eventually attended the University of Pennsylvania. He then attended law school at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, receiving a merit scholarship.
During law school, Mr. Harris had the honor of being a summer law clerk for President Judge James Gardner Colins of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, one of the state's two apellate courts.
Patrick J. Whitehorn
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Daly City, California |
| Admitted to: |
California Bar and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California |
| Education: |
University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1999); Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 2002) |
| Member: |
State Bar of California, American Bar Association |
Patrick J. Whitehorn is a fourth generation native San Franciscan. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned his B.A. in 1999. While in Santa Cruz he was active in the community and local government, as well as serving a one year term as the elected representative from his college to the university wide student government.
Mr. Whitehorn attended Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, California. While at Santa Clara he focused on public interest law, and was recognized as a Public Interest Law Scholar upon graduation. During his time at Santa Clara, he also served as President of the Environmental Law Society and as a member of the Student Advisory Council for the Center for Law and The Public Interest.
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