October 26, 2020
Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC and Fair Work PC will receive nearly $1 million in fees and costs Monday for their work representing Boston police officers in a discrimination suit, or less than half of the $2.3 million they sought, after a judge ruled they could not bill for hours spent litigating a similar case.
August 17, 2020
Calling the request "beyond the pale," the city of Boston asked a federal judge to pare down a $2.3 million fee bid by Black police officers who won a $484,000 back pay ruling in a long-running discrimination case, citing a litany of issues including "egregiously high" hourly rates.
June 29, 2020
Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC and Fair Work PC have asked a Massachusetts federal judge for $2.3 million in fees and costs after helping a group of minority police officers who lost promotions because of a discriminatory exam win a $484,000 back pay judgment against the city of Boston.
May 13, 2020
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday awarded back pay to a group of minority police officers who were denied promotions due to an exam twice found to be discriminatory, saying that the officers are presumptively entitled to the monies.
October 28, 2019
An attorney for minority police officers that were denied promotions due to an exam twice found to be discriminatory said the city of Boston is taking a "fairly racist" stance by suggesting the cops in question would have still done poorly on a fair test, as a bench trial began Monday.
May 22, 2019
A group of more than two dozen Boston police officers are seeking class certification for the remedy stage of a case in which a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that a test for cops seeking a promotion violated anti-discrimination laws.
July 26, 2017
A judge in Massachusetts ruled yet again Wednesday that an old Boston police promotion exam from sergeant to lieutenant violated federal discrimination law.