The Law Offices of Howard Friedman, P.C., brings civil lawsuits for monetary damages to compensate people whose constitutional rights have been violated by police officers and other government officials. Our areas of practice include:
- Misconduct by police and other government officials including:
- Excessive force
- False arrest
- Wrongful conviction
- Unconstitutional strip searches
- Negligence
- First Amendment free speech violations
- Private security officer and bouncer misconduct
- Discrimination in employment or housing
- Wrongful death and serious personal injury claims
- Privacy violations
- Class actions
U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young wrote that Howard Friedman is “one of the foremost practitioners” in the police misconduct field. In another opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner said that Attorney Friedman is “an acknowledged expert in civil rights litigation.” Mr. Friedman was selected as a Massachusetts “super lawyer” in each of the Massachusetts Super Lawyers polls published in Boston Magazine in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Howard has been selected by Northeastern University School of Law as a Givelber Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Public Interest Law. He will teach a course at the law school on civil rights litigation against law enforcement officers and local government entities in the Fall quarter, 2009. Recently Howard spoke about the constitutionality of strip searches at two a continuing legal education seminars, one at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan in March, 2009 and another at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. in April, 2009.
