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Foley Hoag’s State Attorney General Investigations lawyers offer their experience, insight and skill to help your business through the considerable challenges of an AG investigation or enforcement action.

Update: The Supreme Court’s Decision in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport (formerly Platkin)
Blog May 11, 2026
If you are a regular reader of State AG Insights, you know that we have previously blogged about First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin (now Davenport, with the end of Attorney General Platkin’s tenure and Attorney General Davenport’s recent appointment), a case concerning the ability of a crisis pregnancy center to challenge an administrative subpoena issued by the New Jersey Attorney General…
SCOTUS Considers Pre-Enforcement Challenges to State AG Subpoena: Oral Arguments in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin
Blog December 05, 2025
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, Docket No. 24-781, on December 2, 2025, concerning the administrative subpoena sent by the New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin to First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a pro-life crisis pregnancy organization in November 2023…
NY AG Subpoena Cut Back on Constitutional Grounds
Blog August 21, 2017
In a rare departure from the typically-deferential court treatment of AG investigations, a New York appeals court allowed in part a motion to quash a document subpoena from the New York Attorney General, citing constitutional concerns, in Matter of Evergreen Assn., Inc. v. Schneiderman, 54 N.Y.S.3d 135 (2017). The subpoena, issued in 2013, arose from investigations by the NY AG begun in 2010 of “crisis pregnancy centers.”  Evergreen…
Recent Updates from the Attorney General's Nonprofit Division
Blog March 10, 2017
Several attorneys from the Non-Profit Organizations/Public Charities Division of the Office of the Attorney General (the Division) participated in an engaging panel discussion at the Boston Bar Association last week. The discussion covered a number of topics of interest to nonprofit organizations in the Commonwealth, including required and requested reporting related to “fundamental transactions,” probate issues, governance challenges faced by nonprofits, and an update regarding charitable……
Recent Governance and Gift-Giving Guidance from the Non-Profit/Public Charities Division
Blog September 21, 2016
The Non-Profit Organizations/ Public Charities Division of the Office of the Attorney General (the “Division”) recently released helpful guidance regarding (i) good governance of charitable organization and (ii) the rules that apply to significant gifts between charities. Governance Guidance On May 25, 2016, the Division released a letter to the Board of Trustees of Suffolk University and its then-president Margaret McKenna…
Minnesota AG Report Illustrates Importance of Care When Advertising in Connection with a Charity
Blog November 06, 2015
In many states, attorneys general play an important role in monitoring the activities of charities, as well as the interactions between private firms and charities. For example, in October, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson issued a compliance report regarding the nation's largest car donation charity Car Donation Foundation raising questions about CDF's relationships with for-profit companies, the percentage of donations to CDF that went to charitable causes…
Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Nonprofit Trustees Agree To Million Dollar Settlement With New York Attorney General For Lackadaisical Governance
Blog June 22, 2015
In April 2015, the New York Attorney General entered into a $1.025 million settlement with the trustees of the Victor E. Perley Fund, a nonprofit that serves underprivileged children in New York City. A two-year probe revealed that the Fund's chairman, along with a fellow trustee, had used its multi-million dollar portfolio as a private slush fund. The duo's self-dealing and conflict-ridden, high risk investments would have been discovered had their fellow trustees exercised even a modicum……

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Foley Hoag’s State Attorney General Investigations lawyers have the experience, the insight and the skill to guide your business through the considerable challenges of an AG investigation or enforcement action.

Our team knows firsthand how the AG and her line assistants approach investigations. Our legal team includes a former Massachusetts Attorney General, a former chief deputy attorney general, a former first assistant attorney general, a former deputy attorney general, a former chief of the business and labor bureau, a former deputy chief of the criminal bureau, and four partners who served as assistant United States attorneys.

Foley Hoag will work closely with you to develop and implement winning strategies to achieve your objectives and successfully resolve the investigation. And if there is no reasonable alternative but to litigate, our lawyers, including American College of Trial Lawyers fellows, have a record of substantial courtroom success. Whatever the path, we will fight to protect the reputation of your business and neutralize any adverse public relations implications arising from the AG action.