Foley Hoag LLP

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Michael Keating, chairman of Foley Hoag LLP’s Litigation Department, has been named a Lawyer of the Year for 2011 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

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Lawyers from Foley Hoag LLP wrote an amicus brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts in support of legal immigrants who were excluded from subsidized health coverage and were handed a victory at the state Supreme Judicial Court on Jan. 5.

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Michael Keating, chairman of Foley Hoag LLP’s Litigation Department, has been appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to chair the search committee to recruit the Court Administrator for the Massachusetts Trial Court, a new leadership position created by recently enacted legislation.

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Foley Hoag LLP has represented the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Mass., in an insurance coverage dispute with U.S. Fire Insurance Company over the costs to clean up oil contamination discovered under a portion of its property and that of a neighbor.

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Continuing Foley Hoag LLP’s longstanding commitment to pro bono work, partner Lisa Wood has been named to the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors’ Pro Bono Task Force.

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Foley Hoag LLP won a favorable decision from the 11th Circuit for clients Bariven, S.A. and PDVSA Services Inc. in a dispute over food-purchase contracts with Validsa Inc., with the court reversing summary judgment and remanding the case for trial on liability. In addition, the court affirmed key rulings which limited the scope of possible damages and upheld a monetary award in favor of Bariven.

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Foley Hoag LLP recently won dismissal of a putative class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court against Acadian Asset Management LLC and some of its officers alleging breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and waste.

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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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Michael B. Keating, chairman of the Litigation Department at Foley Hoag LLP, will be honored with the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Gold Medal Award at its Centennial Ball at the Boston Sheraton Hotel May 19.

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Community Resources for Justice (CRJ), one of the oldest social service organizations in the nation committed to criminal and social justice, has named Michael B. Keating of Foley Hoag LLP as a 2011 Honoree.

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The law firm Foley Hoag LLP is pleased to announce that five lawyers will be promoted to the firm’s partnership effective January 1, 2011.  The group represents the firm’s strong foundation in corporate, litigation and intellectual property law.

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In a significant victory for the government of Venezuela, an arbitral tribunal under the rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has unanimously dismissed a claim brought by Canadian company Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI) for lack of jurisdiction and awarded Venezuela $1 million in arbitration and attorney costs, the first time such costs have been awarded to Venezuela in investor-State arbitration, and rarely awarded in that type of arbitration.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Thomas Ayres, an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, on being selected as one of 12 lawyers to participate in the Boston Bar Association’s 2010 - 2011 Public Interest Leadership Program.

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Foley Hoag lawyers and practice areas retain a number of top rankings in Chambers and Partners, a leading U.K.-based research and publishing company, has ranked Foley Hoag lawyers and practice areas in its 2010 guide.  A total of 26 lawyers are ranked in the following practice areas for Massachusetts:  Antitrust, Banking & Finance, Bankrupcty/Restructuring, Corporate/M&A, Environment, Health Care, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment.  The International Arbitration practice is ranked nationally.

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In a much-awaited ruling on a cross-border environmental dispute, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled overwhelmingly in Uruguay’s favor in a case brought by neighboring Argentina, which had attempted to force the closing and dismantling of a paper pulp mill on the Uruguay River, whose course forms part of the border between the two nations.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Vickie L. Henry, a Partner and Deputy Chair of the Litigation Department, on her appointment as Chair of the Commercial Litigation Committee of the DRI, the Voice of the Defense Bar.

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Foley Hoag LLP has been retained by the government of Bangladesh in two just-filed arbitration actions against the neighboring states of Myanmar (Burma) and India over maritime borders in the resource-rich Bay of Bengal.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Neil Austin, an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, on being selected as one of 15 lawyers to participate in the Boston Bar Association’s 2009-2010 Public Interest Leadership Program.

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Foley Hoag congratulates Colin Zick, a partner in the Boston office, on his recent nomination to North American Regional Vice Chair of the Health Care Industries Practice Group of Lex Mundi, a global network of independent law firms.  He will serve in the role for a four-year term, 2009-2013.