BHPK’s Erica Brody was featured on the front page of The Boston Globe, while Sam Perkins was interviewed by NBC10 Boston, for their representation on behalf of four victims of sexual abuse suffered while in the hands of the state’s foster care system.
BHPK Founders Leonard Kesten and Samuel Perkins secured an impressive bench trial verdict in a high-profile Chapter 93A case that had been remanded for trial by the Supreme Judicial Court. Read the judge’s 36-page decision, finding for BHPK clients in full, here: Click here for decision
BHPK’s Michael Stefanilo, Jr., alongside Lenny Kesten and Deidre Regan, prevailed at the First Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of his client, the City of Somerville, on the question of whether the City’s termination of a police officer for a violent, off-duty altercation with a civilian, was lawful.
BHPK’s Lenny Kesten was a featured panelist alongside Deputy Executive Director of the International Chiefs of Police Association, Terrence Cunningham, and Peace Officer Standards and Training Commissioner, Marsha Kazarosian, speaking on issues of police reform at the Federal Bar Association’s Section of Civil Rights annual Etouffee in February 2023.
BHPK Founding Partner Larry Hardoon was quoted in The Boston Globe on the DA’s pursuit of charges in the Clancy/Duxbury murders.
BHPK’s Michael Stefanilo, Jr. analyzes a recent Tenth Circuit opinion which grapples with the constitutionality of a student’s antisemitic snapchat post stating that the student and some friends were about to “exterminate the Jews.” The court held that the remark did not cause a substantial disruption to the school and, therefore, was constitutionally protected.
BHPK’s Erica Brody, who specializes in representing survivors of sexual assault, was quoted on the front page of the The Boston Globe Metro Section on Sunday in a story about her ongoing civil lawsuit against Massage Envy for its failure to respond to sexual assault allegations perpetrated by one of its masseurs.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/…/massage-therapist…/
BHPK’s Lenny Kesten, Tom Donohue, and Erica Brody were recognized as top lawyers by Boston Magazine in its annual year-end list for 2022.
Founding partner Larry Hardoon, lead prosecutor in the Fells Acres child sexual abuse cases in the 1908’s and currently working as a civil attorney at BHPK representing plaintiffs in sexual abuse claims, urged the Governor’s Council to reject pardons for the twice convicted Amiraults, whose convictions have been upheld six times on appeal.
BHPK’s Lenny Kesten comments as an expert for Lawyers Weekly on case involving a police officer disciplined for a supposedly inflammatory social media post.
