Services
Foley Hoag provides comprehensive legal services to clients throughout the United States and around the world. We serve a wide range of industries, including biopharma, energy and utilities, financial services, manufacturing, and technology. With 250 lawyers located in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. and our Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, we provide creative solutions and results-oriented advice in the areas of bankruptcy, restructuring and workouts; corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and IPOs; labor and employment; litigation; environmental issues and land use; government strategies; intellectual property; tax, trusts and estates; and white collar and business crimes. For more information, visit foleyhoag.com.
Other Specific Services
Foley Hoag’s Environmental Practice Group has been New England’s preeminent environmental practice for the past twenty years. We have the depth and capacity to handle the wide array of environmental issues that can arise in the course of your business. We will work with you on the permitting of new projects, cost-effective cleanup of urban Brownfields properties, due diligence in the support of acquisitions, defense and prosecution of environmental litigation and many other issues.
With our level of experience comes in-depth knowledge of environmental science and law, which allows us to identify critical issues early and develop practical and cost-effective strategies to address them. We develop a solid understanding of our client’s business and business objectives, and we provide focused, sound and strategic advice that maximizes opportunities and minimizes cost and liability for our client’s environmental issues. By focusing on planning and management combined with vigorous advocacy, we can provide innovative assistance that is results-oriented and focused on the prevention and minimization of your potential liability.
Foley Hoag provides strategic environmental compliance counseling nationwide. Our clients include Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, as well as emerging businesses, environmental technology firms, institutions, municipalities, and state authorities. [more]
Environmental Corporate Responsibility
The emerging issue of global climate change presents businesses with a unique set of challenges. At Foley Hoag, we help our clients work through these emerging issues in ways that will mutually benefit their organizations and the environment.
Global climate changes present both risks and opportunities, as global warming evolves and the issues crystallize, such as:
- The scientific case for global warming further matures
- Public awareness of this issue continues to grow and a domestic political consensus builds for addressing climate change
- International carbon emissions protocols are formalized, even without participation by the United States government
Those organizations remaining unresponsive to global climate change issues risk damage to their reputations, corporate identities, customer loyalty and competitiveness. We help our clients make strategic decisions that are proactive and help protect their reputations. [more]
Foley Hoag has perhaps the largest environmental litigation and dispute resolution practice in New England. And, through service to our clients, we have attained a national reputation in environmental matters. Our lawyers have built an impressive record resolving environmental disputes at the negotiating table and in the courtroom, and a number of our cases have produced precedents of national importance.
Foley Hoag has demonstrated to our clients the effectiveness of our approach, which combines the aggressive use of litigation, alternative dispute resolution and negotiation, to pursue all avenues of relief or defense. Foley Hoag has considerable experience in the resolution of environmental litigation through facilitated third-party mediation, and several of the members of the environmental group are formally trained as mediators and have served as mediators. [more]
In all situations we carefully tailor our efforts to promote successful, but cost-effective, results for each client.
Additional Practice Areas: Energy and Regulated Industries; Litigation; Intellectual Property; Patent; Business; Energy, Technology & Renewables; Venture Capital & Emerging Enterprise; Life Sciences
