Frank & Laura Hogue
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settingsFranklin J. Hogue
Attorney
Franklin J. Hogue has represented accused individuals in criminal cases throughout Georgia in both state and federal courts since 1991, the year he graduated with honors from Mercer University School of Law. His cases have ranged from marijuana possession to multiple murder, including nine death penalty cases, in which none of his clients received that ultimate punishment. He has tried over 100 cases to verdict, many of them ending in acquittal for his clients.
In addition to earning the trust and confidence of his clients over the past three decades, he has received the respect and honor of his legal peers by having been named repeatedly to Georgia’s “Super Lawyers,” as well as having been given the preeminent “AV” rating for “Legal Ability and Ethical Standards” from Martindale-Hubbell, as voted by his peers. He received the Hugh Q. Wallace Award for distinguished service in the defense of indigent clients in 1999, was named to “Georgia’s Legal Elite” in 2005, and served as President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2012.
Frank was also presented with the Meritorious Service Award by the Clarence Darrow Death Penalty Defense College in 2012, where he taught death penalty defense for a decade and was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2013, an honor reserved to one percent of all trial lawyers in the United States and Canada. He also received the G. Terry Jackson Friend of the Constitution Award in 2016 for “unwavering commitment to unpopular clients, courtroom skill and finesse, and unstoppable tenacity” in the defense of the accused.
Frank and his wife, Laura, have practiced criminal defense law together since 1997, having tried many cases together, including a month-long trial in one of Frank’s nine death penalty cases. They earned their client an acquittal in their most recent joint trial, a murder case tried in the spring of 2025.
Laura D. Hogue
Attorney
Laura D. Hogue graduated magna cum laude from Mercer University School of Law in 1991, having been honored by the faculty as the National Association of Women Lawyer’s top graduate.
She practiced as a new associate in the securities litigation section of the international firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Hoping to practice in a more client-based area of law, she worked for a short time with a plaintiff’s personal injury firm and, soon after, accepted an appointment as an Assistant District Attorney for the Macon Judicial Circuit, covering Bibb, Peach, and Crawford Counties in Georgia. She co-chaired the appellate division of the office while prosecuting major felonies, predominantly involving sexual offenses and crimes against women.
In 1997, after several years of successful trial and appellate work for the State, she joined her husband to create the law firm of Hogue & Hogue, LLP. In her capacity as a founding partner, Laura has ardently represented accused individuals in criminal cases throughout Georgia in both state and federal courts. She has appealed numerous cases seeking to overturn state and federal convictions in the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Laura’s compassion for and commitment to her clients and their families has been the driving force behind her approach to the practice of criminal defense law. Her trial skills, up-to-date knowledge of the law, and presentation style have resulted in her having been granted the preeminent “AV” rating for “Legal Ability and Ethical Standards” from Martindale-Hubbell. She has also been inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2016, an honor reserved for one percent of all trial lawyers in the United States and Canada. Laura served as President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2019 and was the former Dean of the National Criminal Defense College.
Laura and her husband, Frank, have now practiced criminal defense law together for almost 30 years. They have tried many cases together, including a month-long death penalty trial where their client’s life was saved. Laura’s last three jury trials resulted in acquittals for her clients on charges of federal conspiracy to traffic illegal drugs, a federal gun charge, and a state murder case. She continues to fight to protect her clients from the power of the government and does so with wisdom, persistence, creativity, and the benefit of almost thirty-five years in the law.
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