PRACTICE AREAS Salsberg & Schneider has significant experience in a broad spectrum of practice areas, including Criminal Defense Serious felony trials and dispositions in Superior Court (including murder, drugs, firearms, arson, sexual assaults, violent assaults, robberies, burglaries). District Court trials and dispositions (including drugs, firearms, larceny, trespass, domestic abuse and restraining orders, operating under the influence cases) Wide range of defenses raised (including mis-identification, alibi, self-defense, lack of mens rea, diminished capacity, entrapment, necessity defenses, police and prosecutorial bungling and misconduct) Trials and dispositions of serious offenses in U.S. District Courts (including fraud, firearms, drugs, false statements, conspiracy cases). Sex Offender Registry Board hearings and appeals Appellate and Post-Conviction Direct Appeals to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court. New Trial (Rule 30) Motions (including claims based on newly discovered evidence, ineffective assistance of trial counsel, suppression of Brady material) Federal Motions for Judgments of Acquittal or New Trial. Federal Habeas Corpus Petitions to the federal District Courts. Federal Appeals to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Petitions for Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. Motions to Revise and Revoke Sentence. Wide range of issues raised (including ineffective assistance of counsel, faulty jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct, evidentiary issues). Full re-investigation of facts and re-interviewing of witnesses where appropriate. Use of wide range of forensic experts (including ballistics, fingerprints, blood splatter, DNA, psychiatric, neuropsychological, neurological, crime scene reconstruction) Academic Discipline Plagiarism, cheating, & other academic misconduct. Alcohol & drug-related violations. Threats & sexual harassment. Strategies to avoid or minimize potential criminal or civil liability. Undergraduate, graduate, medical & law students. Faculty members. Boston area universities, including Harvard, Northeastern & Boston University. Personal injury Auto accidents Slip and fall Premises liability Restaurant liability Negligence & intentional torts Civil Litigation Complex real estate litigation Partnership dissolution Plaintiff and defense representation