Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly included partner Naomi Shatz in its 2024 list of “Go To” Lawyers for Higher Education. Naomi represents undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and employees in cases involving discrimination, employment matters, and Title IX.
Zalkind Law’s Naomi R. Shatz and attorneys from the ACLU of Massachusetts recently defeated a motion to dismiss in a case challenging Department of Recreation and Conservation regulations that unconstitutionally limit protected speech on public lands. The court found that one of the challenged regulations “impermissibly restrictions ‘profanity, vulgar or obscene language'”; language that is protected by the First Amendment. The court also agreed with Zalkind Law and the ACLU that a regulation that prohibits “unnecessary noise” is too vague to withstand constitutional scrutiny. With respect to DCR regulations that require permits for use of audio devices or public address systems, including radios, musical instruments, or potentially cell phone speakers on all DCR property, no matter what purpose the property is used for, are overbroad.
To read more about the case and view the decision click here.
We are pleased to announce that ten of our attorneys have been selected to the 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. We would also like to congratulate two of our attorneys for being selected to the 2024 Massachusetts Rising Stars list.
Super Lawyers rates outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. Only up to 5 percent of the lawyers in a state are named to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
Please join us in congratulating the following attorneys who have been selected as “Super Lawyers” and “Rising Stars” this year!
Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP is proud to announce that the following attorneys are listed in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession and rates attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Congratulations to all!
Inga S. Bernstein – Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Employment Law – Individuals, Litigation – Labor and Employment
David Duncan – Appellate Practice, Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar.
On June 11, 2021, Naomi Shatz submitted testimony to the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights about the Title IX regulations that went into effect last summer. Naomi discussed her experience handling cases under the new regulations, and identified areas where the regulations can be improved. You can read the full testimony here.
Inga Bernstein and Naomi Shatz successfully represented a student in a Title IX proceeding, in which the student was found not responsible for any violations of law or policy.
We are pleased to announce that seven of our attorneys have been selected to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. We would also like to congratulate four of our attorneys for being selected to the 2020 Massachusetts Rising Stars list.
Super Lawyers rates outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. Only up to 5 percent of the lawyers in a state are named to the Super Lawyers list, and no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
Please join us in congratulating the following attorneys who have been selected as “Super Lawyers” and “Rising Stars” this year.
Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP is proud to announce that Naomi Shatz has joined the firm’s partnership effective January 1, 2020. Naomi will continue her litigation practice in employment, students’ rights, and Title IX matters. For more information about Naomi’s background and experience, find her biography here.
Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP is proud to announce that Attorney Naomi Shatz has been selected by the Women’s Bar Association to participate in its 2020 Women’s Leadership Initiative class. Established in 2009, the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) is a program that brings together senior women attorneys and up and coming stars of the legal profession for leadership development and mentoring. WLI alumni include Attorney General Maura Healey and other high-ranking government attorneys, law firm partners, and accomplished in-house attorneys. Congratulations, Naomi!
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