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Martin F. Murphy
Partner
Boston
Marty Murphy practices in the areas of criminal defense, regulatory investigations, and high stakes civil litigation. The publications Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA and Massachusetts SuperLawyers have recognized him as among the best in his field.
Marty has tried more than 30 cases to completion before state and federal courts and arbitration panels, and argued more than a dozen appeals before the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
Marty has represented companies and individuals in the health care, securities, financial services, securities, technology, and government contracting industries. His defense of companies and individuals cuts across a broad range of industry concerns:
Health Care: Investigations concerning pharmaceutical company sales and marketing practices, clinical trial activities, and allegations of fraud in connection with obtaining FDA approvals
Securities: Defense of Securities and Exchange Commission, Justice Department, and state Securities Division investigations of public companies, executives, boards, audit committees, broker/dealers, investment advisers, and hedge fund managers concerning allegations of unlawful stock option practices, market manipulation, market timing, insider trading, revenue recognition, misappropriation, and analyst/investment banker conflict of interest
Financial Services: Investigations of alleged bank fraud, bank bribery, and fraud relating to state abandoned property laws
Government Contracting: False Claims Act investigations, and investigations of commercial bribery, public corruption, pricing misrepresentation, federal financial aid programs, payment of gratuities to federal and state officials, and procurement fraud.
Technology: Investigations of alleged theft of trade secrets and other intellectual property, as well as attacks on computer networks
Marty also works with clients in a broad range of other investigations, including investigations at academic institutions, environmental investigations, and tax investigations. He conducts internal investigations at the request of corporate executives, boards, special committees and audit committees on subjects ranging from stock option practices to workplace hate crimes. Marty has also been called upon to represent individuals facing other serious allegations, ranging from sexual assault to capital murder.
Marty brings the perspective of a decade of experience as a federal and state prosecutor to his defense of companies and individuals. From 1987 to 1991, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; from 1989 to 1991 he was Chief of that office's Major Crimes Division. As a federal prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted a broad range of cases, including bank fraud, mail fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, arson, extortion and bank robbery. From 1992 to 1997, Marty served as First Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts (the state's largest county). As the office's chief trial lawyer, he led a staff of more than 100 prosecutors and personally tried murder, white collar and civil rights cases, among others.
After graduating from law school, Marty served as a law clerk to the late Hon. A. David Mazzone of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
In addition to his work on criminal and regulatory investigations, Marty has represented clients in high stakes civil litigation, including the following cases:
Defended a national engineering and construction management firm in a suit by a public agency alleging financial mismanagement of a large public project
Defended a national engineering and construction management firm in financial disputes with its joint venture partners and in suits alleging improper design and construction of large pulp and paper and power plants
Defended an independent power producer in a suit alleging design defects in gas turbines
Defended pharmaceutical companies in class action litigation relating to pharmaceutical pricing
Defended newspapers and reporters in defamation, public access, and disputes concerning confidential sources
Represented clients in legal malpractice cases, will contests and trust disputes, partnership disputes, and employment matters
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
professional / civic involvement.
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