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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.

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 June 2010, Norman Zalkind and Rachel Stroup won an acquittal on charges of first-degree murder, armed assault with intent to murder, and possession of a firearm after a three week trial in Middlesex Superior Court.

In March 2009, Elizabeth Lunt persuaded a federal judge to sentence her client to probation in a drug trafficking case in which the prosecution requested a guideline sentence of 46 months.

The firm recently won a six-figure arbitration award for a physician retaliated against by her employer after bringing an MCAD complaint.

Just before trial in October 2008, Inga Bernstein and Rachel Stroup settled a disability/failure to accommodate case. Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, both the firm’s counsel and the client were quite pleased with the result.

Inga Bernstein and Rachel Stroup prevailed in a Boston Police Department appointing authority hearing, in which the department sought to discipline a police officer. The officer was cleared of all charges.

In December 2007, Inga Bernstein also won a motion to suppress evidence in a drug cases that resulted in the dismissal of all charges against her client.