Joseph F. Savage

Jr., chairman, NE Innocence Project

Joe Savage, a partner in the firm's Litigation Group, concentrates his practice on white collar criminal defense, governmental investigations work and complex civil litigation. His practice involves representing individuals and companies in a wide variety of fraud, securities, health care, tax, public corruption, environmental and other investigations by federal, state and local law enforcement and government regulators as well as representing companies and individuals in civil litigation, especially complex commercial disputes. Mr. Savage has experience in litigating complex white collar criminal matters including fraud, tax, securities, healthcare, RICO, health and safety act, money laundering and public corruption matters. He has tried approximately 50 cases in U.S. District Courts in Massachusetts, New York, West Virginia, Missouri and the District of Columbia. Mr. Savage has also handled sophisticated trade secret, Lanham Act, RICO, consumer fraud, business tort and other civil litigation, including multi-district class action litigation. Mr. Savage also counsels clients on establishing compliance programs, especially in the high tech, biotech, and health care fields. In 2008, Mr. Savage was appointed to the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Ethics Reform, and also was selected to serve in the Boston Bar Association's Task Force on Preventing Wrongful Convictions. Mr. Savage has been selected for inclusion in *Boston Magazine*: Top Ten Massachusetts Super Lawyers, *Chambers USA*: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers, International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense) and 2007 Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year, Frank J. Murray Inn of Court.