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In March 2013, David Duncan and Zoraida Fernandez won a dismissal of a case charging their client with assault and battery on a police officer.

In January 2013, David Duncan litigated the nature of the drugs in question at sentencing in a drug case, and succeeded in avoiding a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for his client, who was sentenced to one year and one day.

In November 2012, as trial approached, Inga Bernstein and Rachel Stroup negotiated a substantial settlement for a client in a case against a state entity for discrimination on the basis of national origin and religion, and retaliation.

In August 2012, Norman Zalkind and Monica Shah won a motion to dismiss a first-degree murder case, resulting in the dismissal of the indictment against their client, on the grounds that the Commonwealth improperly presented highly prejudicial evidence to the grand jury.

In August 2012, Norman Zalkind and Ruth O’Meara-Costello convinced a judge to grant their client, charged with his second offense, a continuance without a finding on the charge of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, over the Commonwealth’s objection. They also secured the dismissal of the other charges against the client, including the charge of committing a controlled substance violation in a school zone, which could have resulted in a mandatory minimum jail sentence.

In March 2012, Inga Bernstein and Ruth O’Meara-Costello defeated a motion for summary judgment in a gender discrimination case on behalf of a female faculty member at a local university.

In November 2011, Inga Bernstein and Emma Quinn-Judge won a $1.1 million jury verdict in an employment retaliation case after a three week trial in Suffolk Superior Court. An article about this victory appeared in Massachusetts Lawyers’ Weekly, Jan. 9, 2012.

In August 2011, Elizabeth Lunt and Ruth O’Meara-Costello won a motion for a new trial for a client charged with indecent assault and battery.

In June 2010, Norman Zalkind and Rachel Stroup secured the return to their client of almost all of the $69,000 seized from him at the airport by United States Customs and Border Control.

In July 2010, Norman Zalkind and Monica Shah, after one appearance in a drug distribution and school zone case in Brighton District Court, persuaded the prosecutor to reduce the charges to simple possession, with a continuance without a finding.