Mark Eric Hoch

Mark joined HBS in July 2025 after a distinguished 28-year career in legal education developing and mentoring well over a thousand new lawyers and legal professionals from the U.S. and around the world. Over that time, he collaboratively created, directed, and taught in highly innovative academic excellence/bar success, legal research & writing, and LL.M. programs at several well-established U.S. law schools and international universities. He also played an integral role in the final ABA accreditation approval of two new U.S. law schools.Prior to entering academia, Mark’s practical legal career spanned numerous roles as a paralegal, private investigator, court-appointed criminal investigator, mediator, consulting attorney to the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Court Rules Committee, investigative attorney on the multidistrict opioid litigation, and two-time federal judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Of all these experiences, he is most grateful for every moment spent with the late Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, a true giant of justice and incredible human being.As a student, Mark received his LL.M. in International Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law and his J.D. as an Urban Morgan Fellow in Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, at which he was also a member of the Law Review and attended the Hague Academy of International Law at the International Court of Justice. He obtained his B.A. in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he focused his studies on high alpine lake ecosystems and remains a proud Colorado Buffalo.He is very excited to be continuing his life in the law by helping develop the successful careers of all HBS attorneys, while furthering both the HBS Mission and the firm’s Promise of “Serving to Achieve Excellence.”