Foley Hoag LLP

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Jeffrey B. Mullan, former Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, has joined Foley Hoag LLP in its Boston office, returning to the firm where he began his legal career.

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John G. Ruggie, the former U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights and current Harvard professor, has joined Foley Hoag LLP’s Corporate Social Responsibility Practice as a senior advisor.

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Foley Hoag LLP will expand its Corporate Social Responsibility Practice with the addition of John G. Ruggie, the recent U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights and current Harvard professor, who will join the firm’s Boston office in September as a senior advisor.

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The law firm Foley Hoag LLP (“Foley Hoag”) recently launched a blog focusing on corporate social responsibility (“CSR”).

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Foley Hoag’s Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) Practice, the first practice of its kind in a major U.S. law firm, has been selected to serve as the Secretariat for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (“Voluntary Principles”). The Voluntary Principles is a multi-stakeholder initiative that guides extractive sector companies in maintaining the safety and security of their operations in a manner that ensures respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.  Participants in the Voluntary Principles encompass 17 companies, including Marathon Oil, Newmont Mining Corporation, and Talisman Energy; 7 governments, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada; and 9 leading non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently issued a report, From Rome to Kampala: The U.S. Approach to the 2010 International Criminal Court Review Conference, exploring the role of the international court and the U.S. policy toward it.  Gare Smith, Foley Hoag partner and Chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility practice, was one of several distinguished members of the report’s advisory committee.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates Newmont Mining Corporation upon the public release of a landmark report on the company’s community relationships around the world.  The report was researched and drafted by attorneys in Foley Hoag’s unique Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) practice group during the past year.

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Foley Hoag LLP announced that Thomas Barker, the former acting General Counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a legislative veteran who has worked on health care policy issues on both sides of the aisle, has joined the firm as a partner in its Healthcare and Life Sciences practices.

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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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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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As a law student looking to start your career, take a few moments to check out our network and learn more about us. We promise not to make too many claims, or repeat the buzzwords you'll see on every other law firm Web site. When you visit with us, whether here or in person at your school, you will hear the passion in the voices of our people and see what it feels like to walk down our hallways as a member of our Summer Program. We look forward to the dialogue.

Visit foleyhoag.com/summer now.

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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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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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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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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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Law firm Foley Hoag LLP has introduced an ambitious new identity and advertising campaign, highlighting its leading dispute resolution and intellectual property practices and its depth in life sciences and technology. Featuring the tagline “Driving Business Advantage,” Foley Hoag’s new platform is designed to bypass conventional law firm messaging to address client demands from their legal advisors for fresh thinking and a keen understanding of client business needs.

The creative centerpiece of the campaign is a series of ads featuring images by noted fashion photographer Rodney Smith, whose work has appeared in New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. Instead of touting case wins or deals completed, the ads – comprised of arresting black-and-white images of formally dressed men and women in unlikely settings – are meant to provoke business people to stop and consider how they view big-picture challenges and plot their paths to success.