Providing efficient, economical and effective services

At Foley Hoag, we understand that resolving disputes in an efficient and productive manner is essential to our clients’ ongoing success. As a result, we explore all aspects of conflict resolution—engaging experts as needed. Our goal is to resolve your pending conflicts quickly, efficiently and in ways that do not deflect your company from the course that you have set.

Our highly respected litigation department is the cornerstone of the firm’s practice and has been a recognized leader in New England for decades. We provide our clients with a range of services aimed at preventing and resolving their disputes. These services include:

  • Preventive counseling
  • Pre-litigation investigation 
  • Prosecution and defense of claims at the trial level
  • Representation in post-trial and appellate proceedings

Our trial lawyers regularly represent clients in state and federal courts throughout the United States, most frequently in New England, Delaware, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

We work with international and national companies, New England-based businesses, and individuals in trials before juries and judges. Our trial lawyers are well versed in trial tactics and procedures; and we offer our clients proven experience in numerous areas of substantive law. Our capacity to respond to our clients’ needs is enhanced by the knowledge and experience of our colleagues in other practice areas, with whom we often work in close cooperation.

Beyond litigation

In addition to traditional courtroom trials, we represent clients in arbitration proceedings, before administrative tribunals, and in alternative dispute resolution settings. We strongly support Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), whenever it provides the opportunity to reach a settlement that is in the best interest of our client.

We were among the first Boston law firms to endorse the Center for Public Resources Law Firm Policy Statement on Alternatives to Litigation. For each client engagement, our goal is to use our experience and skills as litigators to produce optimal results in the most efficient manner possible. We view litigation as a multi-faceted process providing numerous opportunities for creative problem solving. This approach to litigation has proved successful and attractive to our clients.

As a plaintiff or a defendant, we have represented clients engaged in:

  • Banking
  • Securities
  • Real estate development
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Sales
  • Service industries
  • The professions
  • Public utilities
  • Hospitals
  • Educational institutions

In recent years, we have tried cases involving contract and commercial disputes; securities; business torts, including unfair competition, unfair trade practices, and fraud; statutory and regulatory matters; patents; copyrights and trademarks; bankruptcy; products liability; professional malpractice; toxic torts and hazardous waste; land-use and valuation; employment disputes; business crimes; and civil rights.

Our lawyers are keenly aware that the increasing complexity and expense of traditional litigation requires continual exploration and development of more efficient, economical and effective methods of delivering litigation services. Our commitment to high-quality representation and first-class service to our litigation clients, includes continuing to monitor new developments in litigation support services; and we and have taken advantage of the best of them. These include sophisticated computer programs for organizing pretrial discovery and trial materials; the use of jury consultants and demonstrative aids to assist in the presentation of cases at trial; and the use of experts in many different fields to serve both as witnesses and as consultants on substantive issues.

Regardless of the identity of our client, the location of the forum, or the size and nature of the dispute, we pride ourselves on our skills, creativity, and integrity, which have long been the hallmark of our trial practice.