David spoke today at Harvard Law School on representing current and former substance abusers in civil rights cases. The talk focused on the many obstacles that people involved with drugs face when they seek to vindicate their rights through the civil justice system. The difficulty in securing representation and bringing a successful civil rights lawsuit leaves those involved with drugs especially vulnerable to abuse by the police. David spoke about several police misconduct and prisoners rights cases our firm has brought on behalf of drug abusers whose rights were violated by police, prison medical staff, and other public servants who viewed them as less than human. We occasionally take these very hard cases not because we expect to make a lot of money for the firm, but because we simply cannot not let certain callous and outrageous government abuse go unchallenged.