Isaac N. Saidel-Goley

Isaac N. Saidel-Goley is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Boston office. He specializes in high-stakes international disputes, including white-collar criminal defense, government enforcement defense, and complex civil litigation.  Isaac has never lost a case.

Isaac represents clients in white-collar and government enforcement proceedings spanning the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He regularly takes on the United States government, state and local governments, foreign governments, and international organizations.  Isaac was recently honored as “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for vacating the wrongful conviction of a client who has served forty years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Isaac also represents clients in a wide array of civil disputes in federal and state courts throughout the United States and arbitral proceedings around the world. Recognized by Boston Magazine as a top civil litigator, Isaac regularly represents plaintiffs and defendants at trial and on appeal. Most recently, he successfully represented Latin American plaintiffs in two nine-figure trials involving domestic and international claims. Before that, he secured trial verdicts and appellate decisions dismissing ten-figure claims against two of the world’s most valuable companies.

Isaac also has an active pro bono practice and has successfully represented wrongfully convicted persons to establish their innocence, human trafficking and terrorism victims and death row inmates in civil rights cases, individuals seeking asylum, and disabled tenants facing eviction.

Isaac attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated with honors and won several Dean’s Scholar Prizes. He joined Quinn Emanuel in 2022, before which he spent several years as a litigation associate at another international law firm.