Christine Savage > Choate, Hall & Stewart > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Choate, Hall & Stewart Offices
TWO INTERNATIONAL PLACE
BOSTON, MA 02110
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Christine Savage
Position
Christine Savage, co-chair of Choate’s Healthcare Group and a member of the Government Enforcement and Compliance Group, regularly collaborates with a diverse range of healthcare services and life sciences companies to help them satisfy compliance obligations, protect reputations, deliver value, and ultimately facilitate their ability to focus on their patients or customers. Christine’s 25 years of experience working internal investigations and managing government inquiries related to healthcare fraud help inform her approach to compliance and risk management projects.
As one of the few subject matter experts in the country, Christine is routinely called on to assist academic and clinical research institutions at all stages of the research cycle, from proposal to final close out. She provides legal counsel on contracting, ethical and human subjects protection oversight, effort reporting, and foreign influence issues, and helps craft investigative or disclosure plans in the face of identified problems or concerns. She had led multiple internal reviews related to conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and grants management concerns and resolved material findings with appropriate government agencies including NIH, NSF, OIG and DOJ.
Her work includes helping emerging life sciences companies develop and implement key compliance initiatives to put them on the right footing once they have a viable commercial product. She also collaborates with more established pharma and device companies to assess legal risks related to promotional activities, foundation and charity relationships, Open Payments requirements, and patient assistance programs.
Education
- Harvard Law School
- JD, 1995, cum laude
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- BA, 1992, cum laude, Harry S. Truman Scholar
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Education
(Leading lawyers)The ‘extraordinarily skilled’ team at Choate, Hall & Stewart, lauded by one client as providing ‘service of the highest level’, specializes in advising research universities and medical institutions on the compliance risks associated with international research collaborations, economic and academic espionage, and undue foreign influence. The Boston-based practice is also equipped to handle whistleblower allegations and investigations by federal agencies, as well as investigations relating to sexual misconduct, Title IX, and fraud. Four partners share leadership: Christine Savage regularly assists academic and clinical research institutions with internal reviews and foreign influence mandates, while Alison Reif‘s expertise covers advisory and contentious labor and employment matters. Michael Gass is well-versed in admissions, financial aid matters, and antitrust issues; Cameron Casey completes the leadership group and majors on providing estate planning advice to high-net-worth individuals and families. Lyndsey Kruzer is noted for assisting education-sector employers with employment advice, while Mark McPherson has focused his practice on government and internal investigations involving healthcare fraud and securities fraud. Joan Lukey left the firm in April 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Industry focus > Education
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious