Jonathan A Vogel

Mr. Vogel is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Public Law & Policy Strategies practice groups in Charlotte and Washington, D.C., where he works in the area of government investigations and litigation, as well as statutory and regulatory compliance. As a former Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, as well as a former Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, he has an administrative law practice within the area of higher education and student lending, as well as a white-collar investigation and litigation practice. Prior to joining Sonnenschein, Mr. Vogel worked in the federal government for nearly eight years, including within the Congress and within two departments of the Executive Branch. Most recently, he served in the U.S. Department of Justice where, as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of North Carolina (Charlotte), he was the identity theft coordinator and prosecuted white-collar and financial crime cases in the nation’s second largest banking city. His cases involved bank fraud, money laundering, identity theft, health care fraud, obstruction of justice, environmental crime, wire fraud and mail fraud. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Vogel investigated, prosecuted and tried a number of cases and briefed several cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to his tenure at the Education Department, Mr. Vogel served as Counsel to an Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he assisted the Committee with its investigation and oversight activities. Mr. Vogel began his legal career as a litigation associate at King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta.