Wigdor said Friday that Christine Hogan is joining the employment plaintiffs firm as a partner in New York from Littler Mendelson, where she worked defending employers for more than decade.

As a Littler partner, Hogan represented large companies and organizations in individual and class action litigation involving discrimination, harassment and wage and hour claims, with a clientele that has included The American Museum of Natural History, United Parcel Service Inc, Uber Technologies Inc and Walgreens Co.

But she said the pandemic gave her a chance to reevaluate her career, and she decided to make a change.

"Although my job was to help employers understand and comply with the law, from a labor and employment perspective, it just felt like, increasingly, it wasn't enough for me," she said of her work at 1,000-lawyer Littler.

Hogan will be Wigdor's seventh partner and its 14th attorney, and is joining a firm that grew its reputation for representing alleged sexual harassment victims during the #MeToo movement. More recently it has taken on a string of pandemic-related discrimination cases.

In 2018, the firm, led by Douglas Wigdor, secured a $10 million settlement for victims of gender and racial discrimination at Fox News.

While at Littler, Hogan said, she admired the growing advocacy against discrimination spurred by the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.

"It was certainly a risk and a change, but something that I was embracing because of wanting to do something that mattered and to work with victims and to help them achieve justice," Hogan said of her move.

"Her background and experience at Littler really is going to be very helpful to doing those things because she'll have the background from the management perspective," said firm founder Wigdor.

A Littler representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.