Foley Hoag

Foley Hoag

Infobox Law Firm
firm_name = Foley Hoag LLP
firm_logo =
headquarters = Boston, Massachusetts
num_offices = 3
num_attorneys = approximately 250
num_employees =
practice_areas = Environmental law, intellectual property, international law, corporate law
key_people = Robert S. Sanoff, managing partner [ [http://beta.foleyhoag.com/People/Attorneys/Sanoff-Robert.aspx?ref=1 Robert S. Sanoff firm bio] ]
revenue =
date_founded = 1943
founder = Henry Foley and Garrett Hoag
company_type = Limited liability partnership
firm_slogan = Driving business advantage
homepage = [http://www.foleyhoag.com/ foleyhoag.com]
dissolved =

Foley Hoag LLP (formerly Foley, Hoag & Eliot) is a large law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1943 and has grown to become one of the largest and most prestigious firms in Massachusetts. The firm was ranked 170th on the National Law Journal's 2007 list of the 250 largest law firms in the United States. [ [http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1194516249191 NLJ 250, 2007] . Requires free registration.]

History

The firm was founded in 1943 by Henry Foley and Garrett Hoag. In 1980, the partners created a grant program called the Foley Hoag foundation, which seeks to improve race relations in Boston. [ [http://www.foleyhoag.com/thefirm/thefoleyhoagfoundation.aspx The Foley Hoag Foundation] ] The firm moved its main office to its current location at World Trade Center West in South Boston in 2002. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_May_28/ai_86375438 Prestigious Boston Law Firm Relocates to Seaport District; Foley Hoag Paves the Way to Waterfront; Becomes Anchor Tenant at New World Trade Center West] . Business Wire, 28 May 2002]

Foley Hoag is one of many large law firms providing counsel to the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Practice areas

Foley Hoag has practices in environmental law, intellectual property, tax law, trusts and estates, bankruptcy, corporate and securities law, and white collar criminal defense. [ [http://www.foleyhoag.com/services.aspx Full list of practice areas] ]

The firm also has an international law practice group which represents both corporations and foreign governments. In 2008, the firm successfully represented the government of Bolivia in a challenge to the nationalization of a telecom company. [ [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/foley-hoag-wins-key-victory/story.aspx?guid=%7B0E1E61E3-3C9D-425F-880B-5BDA3BF7A362%7D&dist=hppr Foley Hoag Wins Key Victory for Government of Bolivia in Investor Dispute over Nationalization of Telephone Company Entel] . Marketwatch.com, 1 August 2008.]

Famous lawyers and alumni

* Sandra Lea Lynch -- judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
* Hans F. Loeser -- Civil rights lawyer and Vietnam War opponent, one of Richard Nixon's political enemies
* Michael Rustad -- intellectual property scholar, professor at Suffolk University Law School
* Joseph Liu -- professor of intellectual property at Boston College Law School
* James Boyd White -- Legal scholar and literary critic, founder of the Law and Literature movement, professor at University of Michigan Law School
* Paul Reichler -- international lawyer who represented the government of Nicaragua in Nicaragua v. United States, currently a partner in the firm [ [http://www.foleyhoag.com/people/attorneys/reichler-paul.aspx?ref=1 Reichler's firm bio] ]

Offices

*Boston, Massachusetts
*Waltham, Massachusetts (houses the Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center, which serves small to midsize business in the Route 128 corridor)
*Washington, D.C.

References

External links

* [http://www.foleyhoag.com/ Homepage]
* [http://www.emergingenterprisecenter.com/home.aspx Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center]
* [http://www.lawperiscope.com/profiles/092.html LawPeriscope profile]
* [http://www.chambersandpartners.com/usa/FirmProfile.aspx?fid=1757&mode=firms&display=1 Chambers USA profile]
* [http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?co_page=1&product_id=16245&ch_id=242 Vault.com profile]
* [http://www.martindale.com/Foley-Hoag-LLP/law-firm-301137.htm Profile] from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell


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