Foley Hoag LLP

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Corporate globalization presents companies with unanticipated risks and challenges. Businesses are held to higher standards of accountability with respect to social, environmental and ethical practices. Companies unresponsive to these demands risk damage to their reputations, brand image and competitiveness. We help savvy business leaders limit their companies’ risk by incorporating internationally recognized standards into their strategic planning, crisis response strategies and relationships with stakeholders.

Benefits of our counsel include:

• Reduction of threat to corporate reputation
• Reduction of legal risks associated with the uncertainties of globalization
• Enhanced brand image
• Increased customer and employee loyalty and retention Improved relationships with external stakeholders and public opinion leaders

Download the Foley Hoag Corporate Social Responsibility Brochure (.pdf)

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Engagements Include:

• Litigation and Arbitration between Sovereign States
• Arbitration between Sovereign States and Investors
• International Commercial Arbitration
• Litigation before the United States Courts

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• Litigios y Arbitrajes entre Estados Soberanos
• Arbitrajes entre Estados
• Soberanos e Inversionistas
• Arbitrajes Internacionales Comerciales
• Litigios ante las Cortes de los Estados Unidos

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On November 7, 2007, USICS issued a revised I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form. The primary change to the revised Form I-9 is the elimination of five documents which were previously listed on List A as acceptable for proof of both identity and employment eligibility:

• Certificate of U.S. Citizenship (Form N-560 or N-570)
• Certificate of Naturalization (Form N-550 or N-570)
• Alien Registration Receipt card (Form I-151 - please note that the current I-551 Permanent Resident Card remains on List A)
• Reentry Permit (Form I-327)
• Refugee Travel Document (Form I-571)

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Foley Hoag's Corporate Social Responsibility Law Update is a periodic update of the firm's unique CSR legal practice. The CSR practice works with major multinational companies to formulate legal strategies and business policies that incorporate respect for human rights and comply with existing national and international laws, voluntary codes and industry best practices. If you find this update useful, please encourage your colleagues and contacts to register with us at www.foleyhoag.com. As always, you can access all of our publications on our website foleyhoag.com. For more information on the Corporate Social Responsibility practice group, please contact Gare Smith or Dan Feldman

Included in this update:

• Litigation:
  • Romero v. Drummond Company, (N.D. Ala., jury verdict on Jury 26, 2007)
    (consolidated with Rodriguez v. Drummond Company)
  • Carrizosa v. Chiquita, (S.D. Fla., case filed on June 13, 2007
  • Doe v. Chiquita, (D.N.J., case filed on July 18, 2007)
  • Arias v. DynCorp, (D.D.C., decision on May 21, 2007)
  • Xiaoning v. Yahoo! Inc., (N.D.Cal., case filed April 18, 2007)
  • Carijano v. Occidental Petroleum, (Cal. Super. Ct., case filed on May 10, 2007) 2007
• Industry Watch
• International

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Chambers and Partners, a leading U.K.-based research and publishing company, has again included Foley Hoag and its individual lawyers in its popular Chambers USA: The Client's Guide. This year, eleven practice areas and 22 lawyers are represented.

A digital reprint is avalable for download (.pdf).

SUMMARY

Foley Hoag's Corporate Social Responsibility Law Update is a periodic update of the firm's unique CSR legal practice. The CSR practice works with major multinational companies to formulate legal strategies and business policies that incorporate respect for human rights and comply with existing national and international laws, voluntary codes and industry best practices. If you find this update useful, please encourage your colleagues and contacts to register with us at www.foleyhoag.com. As always, you can access all of our publications on our website foleyhoag.com. For more information on the Corporate Social Responsibility practice group, please contact Gare Smith or Dan Feldman.

Included in this update:

• News from Washington
• Voluntary Initiatives
• Litigation:
  • Rodriguez v. Drummond Co., (N.D. Ala., decision on March 5, 2007)
  • Sarei v. Rio Tinto, (9th Cir., decision on April 12, 2007)

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Welcome to the first edition of Foley Hoag's Corporate Social Responsibility Law Update, a new publication of the firm’s unique CSR legal practice, the only stand-alone CSR practice at a U.S.-based law firm. The CSR practice works with major multinational companies to formulate legal strategies and business policies that incorporate respect for human rights and comply with existing national and international laws, voluntary codes and industry best practices. For more information on the Corporate Social Responsibility practice group, please contact Gare Smith or Dan Feldman.

Included in this update:

• A Defense of Corporate Social Responsibility
• International Developments
• News from Washington
• Litigation – Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (D.C. Circuit, decision on January 12, 2007)