Foley Hoag is an acknowledged regional, national and international dispute-resolution powerhouse, and our lawyers are equally adept at large-scale complex patent litigation; at defending individuals or entities charged with business crimes, securities violations, or professional liability claims; and at safeguarding the business viability of emerging companies in industries such as life sciences, high technology and energy.

  • Chambers USA: The Client’s Guide 2009 ranking includes more than 21% of the firm’s partners. Chambers USA described the firm's Litigation Department; "This litigation practice amazes sources with its sheer size (100 attorneys and growing), cementing its outstanding reputation thanks to its hefty commercial team and expert white-collar defense. It also has notable arbitration expertise in broker-dealer relations …”
  • The highly regarded publisher of referral guides, The Best Lawyers in America, named 27 lawyers from Foley Hoag in its 2009 edition. Individual lawyers practicing across many Foley Hoag service areas have also been ranked by leading publications such as PLC: Which Lawyer? and The Legal 500.
  • Three Foley Hoag Partners — Michael Keating, Dean Richlin and Martin Murphy — are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations comprised of the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada.

Foley Hoag protects the interests of our clients facing new realities, challenges and risks framed by today’s changing legal, regulatory and economic conditions. Our immersion in our clients’ businesses and industries enables our lawyers to provide sound, strategic counsel in both the short term and in the longer term. When litigation is necessary, over 100 Foley Hoag lawyers across multiple practice areas form integrated and efficient teams to address each aspects of a client’s problem across multiple jurisdictions and fora — from large-scale, “bet-the-company” litigation, to commercial disputes, business crimes and government investigations and bankruptcy and restructuring. The firm’s international litigation and arbitration lawyers specialize in the representation of sovereign states, and represent clients in all of the major arbitral institutions worldwide. In addition to traditional courtroom trials in trial and appellate courts at the federal and state level, our lawyers represent clients before administrative tribunals and in arbitrations and other dispute resolution proceedings.

Foley Hoag has achieved impressive results for our clients in many recent high-profile cases, including:

  • Our international litigation and arbitration lawyers successfully represented the Republic of Georgia in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Russia in a suit brought by Georgia accusing Russia of supporting nearly two decades of ethnic and racial discrimination and that ultimately led to Russia’s invasion in August of the Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
  • Our business crimes and government investigations lawyers successfully represented AstraZeneca regarding alleged violation of consumer projection laws by inflating the reimbursement benchmark for its drug Zoladex.
  • Our patent litigation lawyers successfully represented Global Bio-Chem Technology Group Company Limited and its affiliates (GBT), the largest lysine producer in China and the largest vertically integrated corn-based biochemical manufacturer in Asia, in an evidentiary hearing before the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) in a patent infringement investigation brought by Ajinomoto Heartland LLC and Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Ajinomoto).