Andrew Good has been defending criminal cases and litigating civil cases involving civil liberties, civil rights, and complex regulation in several industries for more than thirty years.

Mr. Good’s clients have included many executives and professionals in a wide range of industries, from leaders of publicly-owned, multi-national corporations to owners and managers of family-owned and closely-held businesses, to physicians, scientists, public officials, engineers, union officials and lawyers.    Often, the representation’s objective is preventing prosecution.   As an advocate for declining to prosecute his clients, Mr. Good’s credibility and persuasiveness comes from a long record of successfully defending cases that prosecutors thought were overwhelming.

Recent illustrative clients and cases:

• Winning the acquittal after a jury trial of the former Chief Operating Officer of Enterasys Networks, Inc., a worldwide provider of computer networking hardware and services, of falsifying corporate books, records and accounts and the dismissal of conspiracy and securities fraud charges.

• Former Chief Scientific Officer of Boston Scientific Corporation, a worldwide and leading medical device manufacturer, with no resulting prosecution after a five-year intensive investigation of a recall and related matters.

• Former Vice President of Neuroscience division of Novartis, a worldwide pharmaceutical manufacturer, with no resulting prosecution after years of investigation of off-label marketing.

• Former Executive Vice President of Worldwide Research and Development of Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Oxycontin, resulting in probation for a strict liability misdemeanor.

• Former Division Vice President of Regulatory Affairs of C.R. Bard Corporation, a medical device manufacturer, resulting in probation for strict liability misdemeanor.

• Former president of Fiber Materials Inc., a manufacturer of equipment used to manufacture extremely heat-resistant materials for military and civilian uses, resulting in community confinement, a fine and probation concerning an unlicensed export of equipment to India.

• Lead civil engineer employed by two companies that manufactured and distributed epoxy concrete anchoring systems that failed causing a death in a highway tunnel in Boston’s Big Dig project, with no resulting prosecution after years of federal and state investigations.

• Former Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority prevailed in a litigated dispute with former Governor Mitt Romney concerning the Chairman’s tenure.

• Former Vice President of Alibris, Inc., an on-line used book service, acquitted of conspiracy to intercept e-mail and obtaining unauthorized access to computer.

• Owners of circuit board manufacturing equipment resulting in no prosecution after years of investigation of alleged largest federal tax fraud in Massachusetts history.

President of Canadian consumer goods importer, resulting in dismissal of all charges.

Dallas and Miami physicians and researchers, resulting in no prosecution concerning alleged kickbacks for prescribing drug.

Laborer’s Union official acquitted of unauthorized expenditure of union funds and conspiracy.

Mr. Good was co-defense counsel (with his then-partner, Harvey Silverglate) in United States v. David LaMacchia (wire fraud indictment alleging facilitation of illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted programs via the Internet dismissed) and co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Steve Jackson Games et al. v. United States Secret Service et al. (successful action for damages arising from illegal government seizure of computers, including electronic mail stored on bulletin board systems).

Non-white collar criminal cases include the worldwide televised defense with Barry Scheck and Harvey Silverglate of a 19-year old British au pair, Louise Woodwadr charged with the first degree murder of Matthew Eappen, a nine-month old baby. Ms. Woodward was freed after serving 279 days in prison for manslaughter.

Mr. Good is a a founding member and former President of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He was a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Technology and Law Enforcement, and is also an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has chaired its White Collar Committee and its Task Force on Department of Justice Ethics. He has served as counsel and director of the Americal Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. He has frequently taught in continuing legal education programs of interest to the criminal defense bar on a wide range of topics.

Mr. Good’s current civil litigation includes representation of a hedge fund and its principals First Amendment and Due Process Clause challenges to a ban on truthful advertising of unregistered securities imposed by federal and Massachusetts securities laws, as well as defense of SEC and IRS civil enforcement actions for several clients, and the First Amendment and academic freedom defense of a Brandeis University professor who was under administrative investigation for statements made during classroom teaching.