Jason Bernhardt almost didn't get to take his clients' dispute with their property-owners' association to a jury. The defense won a motion for summary judgment, and a judge dismissed all the plaintiffs' claims nearly a year ago.

But Bernhardt convinced the judge to grant a retrial, and on March 8, his clients won a unanimous jury verdict in Robert Thurmond, et al. v. Southampton Place Extension Property Owners Association Inc., et al.