Haar & Woods has an unusually varied and complex litigation and business practice for a firm of its size. Recent matters include representation of one of the nation's largest utilities in environmental litigation arising out of the breach of a 1.5-billion-gallon mountaintop reservoir at the utility's pumped storage hydroelectric power plant; the defense of the former chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company in a criminal prosecution and civil class action involving allegations of accounting irregularities; representation of a defense contractor with respect to federal grand jury and SEC investigations of back-dating of stock options; a civil rights action to enjoin unconstitutional state action against a private religious school; defense of a professional hockey player charged with murder-for-hire; a voting rights action on behalf of voters and a major political party; and defense of a prominent university in a qui tam action under the federal False Claims Act. The firm's cases have been reported in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other national and international publications.