TANI E. SAPIRSTEIN is a graduate of Brown University (B.A.) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D.). Following several years as in-house counsel to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, First National Supermarkets, Inc., and Friendly Ice Cream Corporation, Ms. Sapirstein has been in private practice since 1990 and is a partner with Sapirstein & Sapirstein, PC, in Springfield. Ms. Sapirstein concentrates her practice in employment law. She was trial and appellate counsel in the case of Bain v. City of Springfield. In 2002, Ms. Sapirstein won a jury verdict in the U.S. District Court under the state whistleblower statute in Bennett v. City of Holyoke. She recently won a jury verdict in U.S. District Court for disability discrimination under G.L. c. 151B and a jury verdict for disability discrimination under G.L. c. 151B in Hampden County Superior Court. (October 2009)