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  • Summer @ Foley Hoag LLPFoley Hoag Launches New Microsite for Law Students as 2009 On-campus Interviews Commence  [Read More]
  • Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers Recognize Foley Hoag  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Adds Noted International Investment and Trade Lawyer Mélida Hodgson to Washington, D.C. Office  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Joins American Lawyer's Select Group of Top 50 A-List Firms  [Read More]
  • Chambers USA 2008 Ranks Foley Hoag in Leading Practice Areas  [Read More]

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  • The SEC Clarifies that the Cash Solicitation Rule Does Not Generally Apply to Solicitation of Investors for Investment Pool [Read More]
  • SEC Issues Emergency Order to Enhance Investor Protections Against "Naked" Short Selling [Read More]
  • Securities Regulators Focus on People Churning the Rumor Mill [Read More]
  • The Foley Hoag Foundation 2007 Annual Report [Read More]
  • Business Crimes Perspectives - January/February 2008 [Read More]

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October 19, 2008 ACC Annual Meeting '08 [Read More] Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Seattle, WA

Client Successes more

  • Defending Allegations of Illegal Kickbacks
    Our lawyers successfully defended an individual who was the target of a federal grand jury investigation on allegations that he and his company paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to encourage the purchase of kidney dialysis supplies. We successfully prevented charges from being brought against him. [Read More]
  • Defending Companies against Federal Healthcare Fraud Allegations
    Our client, an international pharmaceutical company, was a subject of several complex federal healthcare fraud investigations concerning various practices allegedly implicating the federal health care anti-kickback statute. We investigated the facts surrounding the government's allegations, interviewed witnesses and analyzed the voluminous documents obtained by the government, and were able to demonstrate to the government that our client did not violate the anti-kickback statute in any of the investigations. Ultimately, our client was not charged criminally or civilly or otherwise penalized. [Read More]