Foley Hoag LLP

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Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 has ranked 26 Foley Hoag LLP lawyers across 12 practice categories, representing 28 percent of the firm’s partnership.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates its client GenOn Kendall, LLC for receiving an Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environment Protection Agency for its role in helping to protect the waters of the lower Charles River and Boston Harbor.

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Foley Hoag client SustainX, based in West Lebanon, NH, received $14.4 million from GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), and other investors to continue developing technology for energy storage using compressed air. Foley Hoag has represented SustainX since its inception in 2007 and acts as general counsel for the emerging energy technology company.

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Lawyers in the Energy Technology & Renewables practice at Foley Hoag LLP congratulate participants in the second class of the New England Clean Energy Council’s Fellowship Program.  The program, launched in 2008, is designed to boost the cleantech industry in Massachusetts by retraining entrepreneurs experienced in other high-growth industries to lead the numerous cleantech companies in the region.

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Anticipating the rollout of the nearly $800 billion Stimulus Package making its way through Congress, several practices at Foley Hoag LLP have formed an interdisciplinary team to assist clients seeking advice on securing funding for capital projects and growth initiatives. Those practices include Energy Technology & Renewables, Environment, Government Strategies, Infrastructure & Privatization and Life Sciences practices.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has traveled to Washington recently, lobbying for federal funding for areas such as transportation and infrastructure, life sciences initiatives and clean technology/environmental initiatives. All areas are expected to be active in 2009 and will provide much of the region’s growth and activity.

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Cynthia Lewiton Jackson, former Global Director of Career Development at Bain & Company, has joined the law firm Foley Hoag LLP as its first Director of Professional Development. In this role, Ms. Jackson will be responsible for developing and implementing a firmwide career development program for its lawyers and staff.

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Today Foley Hoag LLP is pleased to announce the launch of three new blogs, designed and created as a forum to discuss pressing issues in today’s marketplace. The firm is pleased to present the Law and the Environment Blog, the Massachusetts Noncompete Law Blog, and the Emerging Enterprise Center Blog.

The blogs are primarily managed by three Foley Hoag partners, Seth Jaffe, Mike Rosen, and Dave Broadwin, respectively, and grown out of conversations addressing some of the most pressing issues of the day.

The blogs are available at:

• Emerging Enterprise Center Blog - http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com
• Law and the Environment - http://www.lawandenvironment.com
• Massachusetts Noncompete Law - http://www.massachusettsnoncompetelaw.com 

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates Dean Richlin, Partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department, for becoming a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America.

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Stepping up on behalf of clients buffeted by the ongoing financial crisis, law firm Foley Hoag has formed an Economic Crisis Team, comprised of lawyers from multiple practices focused on helping companies cope with the fast-changing landscape – from internal investigations and enforcement proceedings, to increased regulatory compliance, securities and other types of litigation, bankruptcies and restructurings, as well as emergency financing and deal-making.

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign, released its 2008 Corporate Equality Index ranking Foley Hoag LLP among the nation’s top employers for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors.

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Working Mother magazine, a leading source of information for career-oriented mothers, and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a national consulting firm advising attorneys and legal employers on work/life balance, have included Foley Hoag LLP in the prestigious list of the 50 “Best Law Firms for Women.”

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The American Lawyer named Foley Hoag LLP to its annual “A-List” of the country’s 50 elite law firms that are "best at balancing a thriving business with their obligations to the profession." Inclusion in the A-List is based not only on economic success but also on success in furthering diversity, pro bono work, and associate satisfaction.

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In an unprecedented case in which a pair of Venezuelan mining companies sought more than $200 million from the Venezuelan government in compensation for giving up their concessions to a dam project, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York has dismissed the plaintiffs’ suit, citing lack of jurisdiction – as well as evidence that an apparent agreement between the parties to transfer jurisdiction to the United States was fraudulent.

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The Republic of Ecuador has filed suit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, against the government of Colombia, in an effort to stop or restrict aerial anti-coca spraying that has allegedly sickened people on the Ecuadorean side of the border and harmed livestock, farmland, and sensitive, ecologically diverse jungle areas.

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Foley Hoag partner and head of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice, Gare Smith, delivered the keynote address at Yale Law School’s full-day symposium on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industry on March 8, 2008. 

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The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), the largest energy trade association in New England, recently elected Foley Hoag Partner Mary Beth Gentleman as Vice President of Administration.

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Multicultural Law addresses diversity in the legal profession by encompassing power, leadership, and integrity. Multicultural Law is a breath of fresh air for the legal community. Our readers are accomplished lawyers in need of advice, information, and motivation that Multicultural Law provides.

Multicultural Law is in its third year and has a circulation of over 40,000 professionals in the legal community. Distribution includes a variety of legal organizations, such as the National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the National Hispanic Bar Association. Multicultural Law is mailed to every fortune 500 and 1000 General Counsel Office and ABA Accredited Law School Career Office.

An alphabetical listing of The Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity is available at www.multiculturallaw.com.

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Foley Hoag lawyers successfully represented the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in obtaining the dismissal of a claim brought by the Dutch company I & I Beheer B.V. in an international arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an arm of the World Bank. Foley Hoag attorneys have recently obtained victories as well for Guyana, Ecuador, Chile, and Nicaragua in international arbitrations.

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The original version of this release is available here: http://www.crameronline.com/news/10302007.html

Cramer, a digital marketing and event solutions agency, announced today that the company has completed the reintroduction of Foley Hoag’s web site, www.foleyhoag.com. The new site supplements Foley Hoag’s recently launched identity and advertising campaign, featuring the tagline “Driving Business Advantage.” The cross-media campaign expands the firm’s brand by highlighting Foley Hoag’s expertise in a number of key legal practice areas including dispute resolution and intellectual property, as well as depth in the life sciences and technology industries.

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The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, and the MIT Enterprise Forum in conjunction with major sponsoring organizations, announce the third annual Conference on Clean Energy at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, October 29-30, 2007.

This year’s conference, the third annual event, brings together the latest technologies, leading CEOs, inventors and entrepreneurs who bring them to life, investment perspectives, and employers, all focused on accelerating the commercial success of their companies and the key issues facing the cleantech/greentech industry.