Roger P. Foley

Roger P. Foley is a trial lawyer admitted in Florida and Idaho who has represented clients since 2004 in serious criminal defense, DUI, personal injury, and professional fighter contract matters. His work has included major felony cases, jury trials, significant motion practice, cases involving potential life sentences, serious injury claims, and contract review and negotiation for professional fighters in boxing, MMA, bare knuckle fighting, kickboxing, and other combat sports.

What drives Roger P. Foley goes beyond the résumé. Arthur James Foley, the neighbor who became his father through adoption, helped educate him, taught him discipline, loyalty, persistence, and the value of keeping his word, and remained his father and mentor throughout his life. Arthur took responsibility for Roger P. Foley when he needed someone to do that, and Roger P. Foley has never forgotten what that meant.

That experience shaped the way he views the responsibility of representing another person. Whether a client is facing incarceration, recovering from a serious injury, or making a decision that could affect a professional fighting career, Roger P. Foley takes that trust personally. He prepares, keeps working when the problem becomes difficult, and believes the person who has placed something important in his hands deserves his full attention, honesty, judgment, and effort.

Roger P. Foley was born in Staten Island, New York, and grew up in Central Islip on Long Island. His childhood included poverty and instability. Arthur James Foley entered his life as a neighbor and eventually became his father through adoption.

Arthur came into Roger P. Foley’s life when he was a child struggling academically and lacking confidence. He began taking him to bookstores, helping him read and learn, teaching him chess, introducing him to church, and eventually sacrificing to send him to a Catholic high school. He taught him to drive, the value of a handshake and keeping his word, and that mistakes and setbacks were reasons to learn and keep moving forward, not reasons to quit.

Arthur was an academic and lifelong reader. Roger P. Foley was the kid who wanted to compete. Rather than trying to change that part of him, Arthur helped him learn how to direct it. He supported athletics and boxing while continuing to emphasize education, judgment, preparation, and thinking before reacting.

As Roger P. Foley’s amateur boxing career progressed, he had an opportunity to continue competing with USA Boxing. When that opportunity overlapped with his plans to attend the University of Miami School of Law, Arthur encouraged him to think beyond the next competition and consider the life he wanted to build. Roger P. Foley ultimately chose law school.

Arthur remained a father, mentor, adviser, and source of knowledge throughout Roger P. Foley’s adult life. He was there for football and boxing competitions, college graduation, law school, marriage, the purchase of his first home, and the building of his law practice. He even worked with the firm for several years and continued discussing cases, business, and life with his son until his death in December 2025.

Arthur James Foley did more than help change the direction of Roger P. Foley’s childhood. He stayed. He was there for the setbacks, the accomplishments, and the ordinary years in between. He helped instill a principle that remains central to the way Roger P. Foley approaches life and law: when you commit to something, commit fully, keep learning, get back up after setbacks, and keep moving forward.

Roger P. Foley started boxing in junior high and continued through high school, college, and law school, training and competing in different parts of the United States and Mexico.

He attended the University of Alabama, where he joined the Crimson Tide football program as a walk on running back. After leaving Alabama, he played one season of semi professional football before completing his undergraduate education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, he earned a degree in Criminology with minors in Chemistry, Spanish, English, and Military Science.

His amateur boxing experience included Golden Gloves competition, the Ringside National Tournament, and the Eastern Olympic Trials for USA Boxing. Roger P. Foley became a Golden Gloves finalist and later a Florida Golden Gloves Super Heavyweight Champion while attending the University of Miami School of Law.

Roger P. Foley earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law and began practicing law in Florida in 2004. Early in his legal career, he also worked as an NFL agent for several years while building his law practice, adding experience with professional athletics, athlete representation, negotiation, contracts, and the business side of sports.

A significant part of Roger P. Foley’s legal career has been devoted to serious criminal defense. His experience includes major felony cases involving allegations of drug trafficking, human trafficking, white collar offenses, firearms, violent crimes, self defense, sex offenses, and other serious prosecutions. He has defended clients facing minimum mandatory penalties, potential life sentences, complex forensic evidence, and cases that have received national media attention.

Roger P. Foley is a trial lawyer who regularly appears in court and has substantial experience with jury trials, evidentiary hearings, constitutional challenges, motion practice, expert testimony, scientific and forensic evidence, video evidence, witness testimony, and complex discovery. His record includes not guilty verdicts in felony jury trials as well as significant litigation victories before trial.

Some major cases require a team. When necessary, Roger P. Foley works with co counsel, investigators, forensic and scientific experts, and other professionals while leading the strategy and direction of the defense.

DUI and drug related cases led Roger P. Foley to pursue additional training in the scientific evidence frequently used in those prosecutions. His education has included Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, ARIDE, impaired driving investigations, forensic science, toxicology, blood and urine testing, forensic chemistry, and laboratory procedures. He has also completed NHTSA instructor training.

Roger P. Foley is an active member of the National College for DUI Defense and has attended NCDD programs held at Harvard Law School on several occasions. His undergraduate minor in Chemistry complements his continuing study of scientific evidence used in criminal cases.

Roger P. Foley represents individuals and families in personal injury and wrongful death cases in Florida and Idaho. His work includes serious automobile accidents, commercial trucking crashes, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian and bicycle accidents, boating and watercraft incidents, premises liability, negligent security, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and other negligence cases.

His litigation background influences the way he approaches injury cases. Evidence must be identified and preserved, and the lawyer must understand not simply how an accident occurred but what the injury has changed in the client’s life. A serious injury can affect work, independence, family responsibilities, physical activity, financial security, and ordinary parts of everyday life.

Some of the fighters Roger P. Foley trained beside were friends and teammates who later turned professional. As he went through law school and entered practice, people he knew from boxing were beginning to deal with professional contracts and the business side of the sport.

Roger P. Foley saw that fighters could spend years developing their skills and earning opportunities while still being unfamiliar with the legal and business language contained in agreements placed in front of them. Their attention is understandably focused on training, opponents, weight, injuries, purses, and earning the next opportunity, while a contract can affect a career well beyond the next fight.

He wanted fighters to have someone they trusted who could read the agreement, explain it clearly, identify the important provisions, and help them make an informed decision before signing.

Today, Roger P. Foley reviews and negotiates contracts for professional fighters in boxing, MMA, bare knuckle fighting, kickboxing, and other combat sports. His work includes promotional agreements, bout agreements, management agreements, sponsorship agreements, and related agreements affecting a fighter’s career. His combat sports contract practice includes working with professional fighters throughout the United States.

Roger P. Foley has represented professional fighters at different stages of their careers, including athletes who have competed at the highest levels of professional combat sports. He does not identify clients simply to use their names or accomplishments for marketing purposes.

His boxing background helps him understand the athlete’s perspective, while his years practicing law and earlier experience as an NFL agent add experience with professional sports, negotiations, contracts, and the business relationships surrounding an athlete’s career. His role is to understand what the fighter wants to accomplish, identify the provisions that matter, explain the agreement clearly, negotiate when appropriate, and protect the fighter’s interests.

The people who come to Roger P. Foley usually have something important at stake. A person accused of a serious crime may be facing incarceration, loss of employment, damage to reputation, and consequences affecting an entire family. Someone seriously injured may be dealing with pain, medical treatment, lost income, and uncertainty about the future. A professional fighter may be considering an agreement that could influence compensation, opportunities, and control over a career that took years to build.

Roger P. Foley understands the responsibility that comes with being asked to help in those moments. His job is to keep working when the problem becomes difficult, prepare carefully, look for opportunities to improve the client’s position, and be ready to act. When a matter requires additional resources, he brings together the investigators, experts, co counsel, and other professionals needed and leads the effort.

The client makes the important decisions. Roger P. Foley believes the client should be able to make those decisions knowing that the lawyer entrusted with the case is prepared, honest, and committed to moving forward with them.

That sense of responsibility has its roots in the lessons Arthur James Foley taught him: think, prepare, keep your word, learn from mistakes, and keep moving forward when things become difficult. Athletics added competition, discipline, and the experience of continuing to work when the challenge became harder.

The practice of law brought those lessons together. Roger P. Foley brings both sides with him: the preparation and judgment Arthur helped develop and the competitive drive strengthened through years of football and boxing.

Roger P. Foley’s Christian faith became important to him despite not being raised in a religious household. Arthur James Foley introduced him to church as a child, and faith became increasingly meaningful as Roger P. Foley grew older.

One passage that has particular meaning for him is Luke 22:42: “Not My will, but Yours be done.” For Roger P. Foley, faith provides perspective about responsibility, service, gratitude, and the way people should treat one another. Clients of every faith and background are welcome.

Away from practicing law, Roger P. Foley values his wife, family, friendships, loyalty, humor, animals, and time with the people he cares about. His experiences have taught him that toughness and kindness are not opposites. There are times to compete, challenge, and stand firm, and there are also times to listen, laugh, and simply be there for another person.

The legal problem matters. So does the person living through it.

Roger P. Foley is admitted to The Florida Bar, the Idaho State Bar, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. His professional development has included continued study in trial advocacy, criminal defense, DUI investigation, scientific and forensic evidence, laboratory testing, and negotiation.

Roger P. Foley has received professional and client recognition during his career, including Florida Trend Legal Elite, Super Lawyers Rising Stars, National Trial Lawyers Top 100, Avvo Client Choice recognition, and other criminal defense and personal injury honors. His criminal defense recognition has also included the Broward Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Hat Trick Award associated with multiple not guilty trial results.

More than two decades after beginning his legal career, Roger P. Foley continues to approach his work with the principles that have shaped his life: preparation, perseverance, loyalty, honesty, and full effort. Whether the client is facing a serious criminal accusation, recovering from a significant injury, or making an important decision about a professional fighting career, Roger P. Foley believes the responsibility begins with understanding the person who placed trust in him.

• RP was born in Staten Island, New York.
• Grew up in Central Islip, New York.
• Graduated from Saint John the Baptist High School
  • Was a member Football and Track Teams
• Attended The University Of Alabama
  • Was a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide Football Team
• Graduated from the University of Alabama Birmingham
  • Areas of study: Criminology, Chemistry, English, Spanish and Military Science
  • Vice President Of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
  • Amateur Boxing Golden Glove Finalist
  • Invitation to represent USA Boxing National Team
  • Accepted Jesus Christ
• Graduated From University of Miami School of Law
  • Florida Golden Gloves Super Heavyweight Bronze Medalist
  • Florida Golden Gloves Super Heavyweight Champion
  • Eastern Olympic Trials Participant- USA BOXING
• Former Professional Associations and Memberships
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Florida Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
  • Broward Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
  • Broward County Bar Association
  • Dade County Bar Association
  • Palm Beach County Bar Association
  • Current member, NORML
  • Current member, National College of DUI Defense
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Florida Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• Broward Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• Broward County Bar Association
• Dade County Bar Association
• Palm Beach County Bar Association
• Current member, NORML
• Current member, National College of DUI Defense
• Accolades in Law
  • Expertise.com Best Car Accident Lawyers in West Palm Beach 2022
  • Martindale- Hubbell Client Champion 2022 Award
  • Elite Lawyer Award in Personal Injury 2021 and 2022
  • America's Top 100 Personal Injury Lawyers 2021
  • Lawyer.com Top Attorney Award 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Avvo Client Choice Award 2010-2021
  • National Trial Lawyers Top 100 2014 and 2015
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Broward County Hat Trick Award (three not guilty verdicts) 2011
  • Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite 2010

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