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Michele L. Adelman
Counsel
Boston
Michele Adelman brings over a decade of prosecutorial experience to her counsel of corporations, officers, directors and other individuals in criminal, civil and regulatory investigations and complex civil litigations. She has conducted internal investigations for corporations and has advised corporations and individuals on a variety of regulatory and corporate compliance issues. Michele has defended individual and corporate clients facing allegations of securities violations, such as purported insider trading and options backdating, and healthcare fraud violations, such as purported illegal kickbacks and off-label promotion. Michele also had handled a wide range of complex commercial and civil litigation, such as class action litigation and environmental defense.
Before joining Foley Hoag in 2006, Michele had served for four years as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. While Deputy Chief, she managed and supervised over 100 personnel assigned to the Criminal Bureau, led the grand jury investigation of the Boston Archdiocese relating to allegations of sexual abuse of children, and prosecuted complex cases involving public corruption and economic crime.
From 1994 to 2002 Michele served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In that position she prosecuted cases in the General Crimes, Narcotics, Business and Securities Fraud and Computer Crimes Units and served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Unit. She prosecuted a range of high profile cases including those involving charges of complex securities fraud, market manipulation, internet fraud and money laundering. She entered legal practice as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a litigator at a major national law firm.
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Representative Experience
The following is a brief summary of Michele's experience and accomplishments:
Defended a company and its senior executives in stock options investigations
Defended senior pharmaceutical company executives in various federal healthcare fraud investigations
Helped a public company recover millions of dollars in environmental defense and indemnification costs through litigation with its insurers
Defended a major real estate developer in a federal healthcare fraud investigation
Defended a major pharmaceutical company in federal anti-kickback and off-label investigations
Defended a major hedge fund in an insider trading investigation
Represented a public company in an internal investigation involving potential federal securities law violations
Helped clients develop cost-effective strategies to comply with subpoenas requiring the production of voluminous electronic documents
professional / civic involvement
Boston Bar Association
Women's Bar Association
The Boston Club
Winchester Family Action Network
SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES
Lectured federal and state law enforcement personnel on the topics of computerized evidence and money laundering
Lectured regulatory agency personnel on federal securities fraud prosecution
Lectured state prosecutors and law enforcement personnel on relevant topics such as changes to the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure and compliance with recent court decisions
publications
A Low Dose Prescription: Criminal Prosecution of Off-Label Drug Promotion, Boston Bar Journal, November/December 2007
Note, Labor Law: The D.C. Circuit Struggles With Standards of Reviewability, The GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW, VOL. 56 (May and August 1988).
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