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.
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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.
BHPK is proud to announce the selection of several of our attorneys to the 2022 list of Massachusetts “Super Lawyers” and “Rising Stars” by Super Lawyers. Please join us in congratulating Rick Brody, Larry Hardoon, Sam Perkins, Lenny Kesten, Jeremy Silverfine, Deidre Regan, Jocelyn Sedney, Andrew Rainer, and Tom Donohue for their selection as Super Lawyers in 2022, and Michael Stefanilo, Jr. and Allison O’Connell for their recognition as “Rising Stars.”
In his recent article for the American Bar Association, ABA Litigation Section’s Litigation News, BHPK’s Michael Stefanilo, Jr. examines when discovery depositions might not be admissible at trial, and how a party learned the hard way when litigating against an auto giant.
BHPK partner Michael Stefanilo, Jr. and associate Francesca Papia prevailed on behalf of their municipal client, the City of Somerville, by persuading the court that a civil claim filed by a former employee was barred by a collective bargaining contract.
