Good & Cormier assists people and organizations facing significant legal challenges. The firm is devoted to the defense of criminal cases and to civil cases that can be as important to the client and to the protection of civil liberties as prevailing in a criminal case would be. Our priority in white collar cases has been in preventing prosecution of our clients, in part, through the use of our credibility and experience in prevailing after trials and appeals.
The firm’s civil cases involve civil rights, media, tax, and computer law, as well as securities, bank, currency transaction, export control, telecommunications and pharmaceutical and medical device regulation. The firm is currently engaged in cutting edge First Amendment and Due Process of Law litigation challenging bans and restrictions imposed by securities laws and regulators on advertising by issuers of securities. We have also been in the forefront in protecting the First Amendment and Due Process rights of students and faculty in colleges and universities.
The firm has decades of extensive experience protecting clients and the Bill of Rights in the most challenging circumstances. Partners Andrew Good and Phil Cormier are supported in this ever-important mission by Harvey Silverglate, who is of counsel to the firm, paralegals Tina Tam and Joshua Good, firm administrator Suzanne Hill, and Maurie Fox-Warren, their accountant.
The firm has a low caseload, chooses its cases with care, and handles each case with considerable intensity, avoiding the problem of "been there, done that." For many of our clients, the challenge of litigation often appears overwhelming (particularly at the outset): the adversary can seem overpowering, the laws and courts can seem bewildering and unfair, and the uncertainty and high stakes can be very stressful.
Success is built on persistent effort as well as clear and sometimes quick thinking in the face of adversity; strategic creativity and resourcefulness in presenting the law and the facts; and mindfulness of the thoughts and feelings of clients, co-defendants, adversaries, jurors and judges.
We view the defense of criminal cases, and the handling of civil liberties matters, as well as the writing of books and articles derived from our experiences, to be our contribution to the protection of liberty in this country. We also have a good time doing what we do.
News and Updates:
The federal government has announced it will not prosecute Good & Cormier's client in the Boston Scientific case. Read about the case and our past work in the cases section.
Read Andrew Good & Harvey Silverglate's article on prosecutorial misconduct, "Starr Teachers," in the May 1999 issue of Reason Magazine. Click here for a complete list of Harvey Silverglate's published writing.