Of Counsel Attorneys

Andrew Good

Partner, Retired

Andrew Good has been defending criminal cases and litigating civil cases involving civil liberties, civil rights, and complex regulatory offenses in the healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, securities, maritime, defense, telecommunications, and electronics industries for more than thirty years. His clients have included high-level executives and professionals in a wide range of industries, from leaders of Fortune 500 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. Mr. Good’s credibility and persuasiveness comes from a long record of successfully defending cases at trial that prosecutors had thought were overwhelming.

Mr. Good has obtained remarkable results in a wide range of trials and appeals including the following:

Won the sole acquittal and dismissal of all criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges against the former Chief Operating Officer of Enterasys Networks, Inc., a worldwide computer networking hardware company. Ten other executives were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Won acquittal of a former Vice President of Alibris, Inc., an on-line used book service, for conspiracy to intercept e-mail and obtain unauthorized access to another company’s computer.
After lengthy federal and state investigations of a death from the failure of a tunnel roof shortly after the opening of Boston’s Big Dig highway system, persuaded authorities not to prosecute the lead engineer employed by two companies that manufactured and distributed concrete anchor systems that caused the tunnel roof to fall.
After a five-year investigation into a product recall and technology theft and espionage issues, persuaded federal authorities not to prosecute a former Chief Scientific Officer of Boston Scientific Corporation, a worldwide and leading medical device manufacturer.
After a lengthy investigation into off-label marketing of an epilepsy medication, persuaded federal authorities not to prosecute a former Vice President of North American Neuroscience division of Novartis, a worldwide pharmaceutical manufacturer.
After a lengthy investigation, persuaded federal authorities not to prosecute owners of manufacturer of robotic machines for alleged $26 million gift and estate tax fraud.
Successfully represented a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority in a litigated dispute against former Governor Mitt Romney concerning the Chairman’s tenure.

Former partner, Good & Cormier, Silverglate & Good, and Silverglate, Gertner, Fine, & Good, widely recognized as amongst the top small law firms in the country.

Former President and Founding Member of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL) and recipient of the Joseph J. Balliro Award.

Former Chair of the White Collar Committee and of the Task Force on Department of Justice Ethics of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).

Cooperating Attorney and former Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Active member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Technology and Law Enforcement, and frequent lecturer in continuing legal education programs.

Mr. Good has played a central role in a number of high-profile cases over the course of his career, including trying co-lead counsel with Barry Scheck in the worldwide-televised murder trial of Louise Woodward which resulted in a 279-day, time-served sentence for manslaughter; as well as appellate and post-conviction actions for Leona Helmsley, Michael Millken, and Jeffrey MacDonald.

Listed for decades in Best Lawyers in America, Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Martindale Hubbel’s highest AV Rating.

Education

Boston University, J.D., 1972; University of Wisconsin, B.A., 1968.

Bar Admissions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Federal District of Massachusetts; United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; United States Tax Court.

Keith Halpern

Of Counsel

Keith Halpern has achieved great success as a trial lawyer in both civil and criminal cases. From 1982-1984, Mr. Halpern worked at Kreindler & Kreindler in New York City, the country’s leading firm in the representation of victims of aviation accidents. In 1984, he joined the Boston firm of Silvergate, Gertner, Fine & Good, where he became a partner in 1987, and expanded his practice to include a variety of complex civil matters, including medical malpractice, products liability, criminal defense and civil rights. He established his own firm in 1990.

Mr. Halpern’s recent jury trial wins include back-to-back acquittals in two highly publicized murder cases, including a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity verdict, which may be the only successful insanity defense involving a male defendant in Massachusetts in the past 25 years. Mr. Halpern’s largest civil recovery, $7.2 million, was for a client who invested in a real estate trust and was cheated out of the profits. He recently obtained a jury award of $2.82 million in a medical malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose a bowel obstruction.

Mr. Halpern has frequently taught as a visiting instructor at Harvard Law School and Harvard College. He has appeared as a speaker at professional conferences, and his work has been published in professional journals, focusing in particular on the use of experts in complex civil and criminal trials.

Member

Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL).

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1982; Brown University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1978.

Jeffrey G. Harris

Of Counsel

Jeffrey G. Harris is an appellate and post-conviction attorney at Good Schneider Cormier & Fried, a member of the public defender’s innocence, postconviction, parole, and SORB panels, and a former member of Suffolk Lawyers for Justice. He has argued many cases in the state appellate courts, including two in front of the SJC, including Clay v. Massachusetts Parole Bd., 475 Mass. 133 (2016). Mr. Harris has also assisted in representing many clients in First Circuit Court of Appeals, including a successful constitutional challenge of a conviction concerning the United States Munitions List in United States v. Zhen Zhou Wu, 711 F.3d 1 (2013) and the protection of union members’ rights in United States v. Burhoe, 871 F.3d 1 (2017). In 2016, Mr. Harris won parole for two juvenile “lifers” in front of the Massachusetts Parole Board.

Mr. Harris argued and won Clay v. Massachusetts Parole Bd., 475 Mass. 133 (2016), which resulted in parole for a juvenile offender

Mr. Harris graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2010, where he represented clients through the Northeastern Prisoners’ Rights and Criminal Defense clinics and worked for United States District Court Judge Nancy Gertner and Superior Court Judge John T. Lu. He has also worked for the Boston criminal defense firms of Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin and Rankin & Sultan.

Mr. Harris has been selected as a “Rising Star” by SuperLawyers for three years running and won a Mass. Lawyers Weekly Lawyer of the Year award in 2018 for his representation of Frederick Clay, who was exonerated after 38 years in prison.