Michele L. Adelman
Michele Adelman brings over a decade of prosecutorial experience to her counsel of corporations, officers, directors and other individuals in criminal, civil, regulatory, Congressional investigations and complex civil litigations. She has conducted internal investigations for corporations and has advised corporations and individuals on a variety of regulatory and corporate compliance issues. Michele has defended individual and corporate clients facing allegations of securities violations, such as purported insider trading and options backdating, and healthcare fraud violations, such as purported illegal kickbacks and off-label promotion. Michele also has defended companies targeted by Congressional Committee investigations. In addition, she handles a wide range of complex commercial and civil litigations, such as class action litigations, RICO charges, and environmental defense.
Before joining Foley Hoag in 2006, Michele had served for four years as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. While Deputy Chief, she managed and supervised over 100 personnel assigned to the Criminal Bureau, led the grand jury investigation of the Boston Archdiocese relating to allegations of sexual abuse of children, and prosecuted complex cases involving public corruption and economic crime.
From 1994 to 2002 Michele served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that position she prosecuted cases in the General Crimes, Narcotics, Business and Securities Fraud and Computer Crimes Units and served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Unit. She prosecuted a range of high profile cases including those involving charges of complex securities fraud, market manipulation, internet fraud and money laundering. She entered legal practice as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a litigator at a major national law firm.
Bars and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Representative Experience
The following is a brief summary of Michele's experience and accomplishments:
- Helped clients develop cost-effective strategies to comply with subpoenas requiring the production of voluminous electronic documents
- Represented a public company in an internal investigation involving potential federal securities law violations
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Defended a company and senior executives in stock options investigations
- Defended financial firms in wide-ranging investigations and prosecutions the Massachusetts Securities Division.
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Defended major hedge funds in insider trading investigations.
- Defended nationally recognized non-profit institution in Senate investigation regarding alleged violations of healthcare and conflict of interest laws
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Defended an insurance company in Congressional investigations regarding healthcare practices
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Defended a major pharmaceutical company in federal anti-kickback and off-label investigations
- Defended a major real estate developer in a federal healthcare fraud investigation
- Defended senior pharmaceutical company executives in various federal healthcare fraud investigations
- Helped a public company recover millions of dollars in environmental defense and indemnification costs through litigation with its insurers
professional / civic involvement
- Boston Bar Association, Criminal Law Section Steering Committee
- Women’s Bar Association
- The Boston Club, Corporate Board Resource Committee
- Winchester Family Action Network
SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES
- Panel participant, "The New Massachusetts Regulations Mandating Disclosure of Payments by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies: What will be disclosed? How will this data be collected? How will this change things?", Criminal Law and Health Law Sections, Boston Bar Association (October 2009)
- Moderated a panel on the new Massachuestts Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Conduct Rules, Foley Hoag LLP (April 2009)
- Moderated a panel "Spotlight on Hedge Funds - From Madoff to Short Selling", Boston Bar Association (February 2009)
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