NEWS

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has named Peter Krupp one of its ten Lawyers of the Year for 2007 [December 2007].

A federal jury has found that the American Civil Liberties Union’s coordinator of its national racial profiling project was unlawfully detained at Logan Airport in 2004 [December 2007].

Tom Lent has been named a partner at Lurie & Krupp, LLP. Tom received his undergraduate degree from Bates College and received his J.D. from the Northeastern University School of Law. Tom previously was an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston. Tom will continue his practice in business litigation and employment law [July 2007].

Boston and Law and Politics magazines named Tom Lent one of the top young lawyers in Massachusetts, including him in their 2007 list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars in employment law [May 2007].

David Lurie and Peter Krupp have been listed by Boston magazine in its list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers for several years, David, for business litigation, and Peter for business litigation and criminal defense [May 2007].

Karen Friedman and Sara Laroche were recognized for their work as writing coaches at the Citizen Schools 8th Grade Academy in Boston. Karen and Sara each worked one afternoon per week during the 2006-07 school year with a different 8th Grade student to develop each student’s writing proficiency [May 2007].

The decision by the Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Durham threatens to undermine the effectiveness of cross-examination in criminal cases by allowing judges in certain cases to require defense disclosure of prior witness statements that may be used as a basis for cross-examination [April 2006].

Some charges are dropped in an on-going drug trafficking case to avoid an evidentiary hearing on prosecutorial misconduct allegations [October 2005].

Robbery charges against a Beacon Hill resident were a case of mistaken identity [February 2005].

The Supreme Court’s decision in Blakely has created greater sentencing flexibility in the federal court [August 2004].