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.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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. He is chairman of the New England Innocence Project, co-chairman of the ABA Science and Technology Committee, former chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Federal Bar Association, former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association Criminal Justice Section.
Mr. Savage is also a member of the American Bar Association, American Health Lawyers Association, Boston Bar Association, Federal Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council of New York, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition, he previously served on the BBA Task Force on Wrongful Convictions and The Governor’s Task Force on Ethics Reform.
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 (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense) and 2007 Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year, Frank J. Murray Inn of Court.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Savage is a frequent lecturer and the author of more than 50 articles on a variety of compliance, securities and white collar criminal matters. He is a member of the Board of Editors of both the White Collar Crime Reporter and Business Crimes Bulletin: Compliance and Litigation. Mr. Savage is the author of the “Trademark, Copyright and Intellectual Property Crime” chapter of White Collar Crime: Business and Regulatory Offenses.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Savage was a partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP in Boston, where he directed the group’s white collar crime and governmental investigations work. He was a federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, New York, West Virginia and Missouri. Mr. Savage was also a law clerk for the Honorable A. David Mazzone, U.S. District Court, D.MA.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Savage is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and West Virginia; the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; the U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia; the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.