HEIR TYPICAL clients are investment bankers and real estate moguls – not exactly society’s downtrodden. But two young commercial litigators and their boss wound up with hearts on their monogrammed sleeves in representing a child traumatized after testifying in a high-profile murder trial.
The unlikely trio persuaded a judge to declare New York’s Crime Victims Compensation Board “arbitrary and capricious” in refusing to underwrite the cost of special schooling needed to repair severe psychological damage suffered by an 8-year-old boy. The boy’s testimony in the slaying of a neighbor was crucial in convicting a killer he used to call “Puppy” – the seemingly friendly fellow who gave him carriage rides.
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