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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.

In 2007, we won a motion to suppress all evidence seized in a cocaine trafficking case in the Superior Court, which resulted in the dismissal of all charges against the client.

We recently prevailed in a non-dischargeability trial in United States Bankruptcy Court, protecting a client’s Superior Court judgment from being discharged in bankruptcy.

In April 2006, Norman Zalkind and the firm settled a construction accident case for $8 million after the jury was selected but before the opening statements.

In February 2006, Norman Zalkind and Elizabeth Lunt won an acquittal on federal racketeering murder charges. A year earlier, they had succeeded in persuading the Justice Department not to seek the death penalty in this case.

In 2005, Ms. Bernstein won preliminary recognition that a long term disability policy that limits benefits for persons with mental disabilities might violate the American’s with Disabilities Act.