Attorney Carolyn Murray will serve on a panel together with three municipal HR Directors, at the 2015 Annual Conference to be held at the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, MA. Attorney Murray will address employment and Human Resources topics that regularly confront Treasurers and Collectors who are often... read more
Kopelman and Paige provides a full range of legal services to housing and redevelopment across the Commonwealth. Attorney Thomas McEnaney, who heads the firm’s housing authority practice, will present a seminar on the Open Meeting Law at this year’s MassNAHRO conference, to be held at the Resort and Conference... read more
KP Law sponsored a team in the annual Lawyers Have Heart road race on May 31, a 5K which raised funds for the American Heart Association. Timothy Zessin, with a time of 22:14, led a contingent of nine KP runners along the course, which wound its way along the... read more
Attorney David Jenkins won a recent decision in favor of the Town of Ayer from the American Arbitration Association, which ruled that there was no violation of the collective bargaining agreement when a union member was terminated after town meeting eliminated all funding for the department in which the... read more
On May 6, 2015, Attorney Jonathan Silverstein will be a panelist at the Boston Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education program designed for attorneys, entitled, “Hot Topics in Zoning Law.” Attorney Silverstein will speak on the topic of the special treatment under the Zoning Act, G. L. c. 40A, §6... read more
Attorneys Jonathan Silverstein and Katherine Laughman have secured a significant zoning decision on behalf of the Town of Tisbury and also of great significance to other Massachusetts communities. The Supreme Judicial Court, the Commonwealth’s highest appellate court, issued a decision in Palitz v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Tisbury... read more
Attorney Carolyn Murray will present an “Introduction to the Zoning Act” at the Annual Meeting of the Citizen Planner Training Collaborative to be held at Holy Cross College in Worcester on March 21, 2015. This course is designed for newer board members, and will address the history and purposes... read more
Attorney Carolyn Murray recently won a Land Court decision dismissing an abutters’ appeal of the issuance of a building permit due to the abutters’ failure to have filed their appeal within 30-day deadline from their receipt of notice of the issuance of the building permit. Such a result is... read more
Attorney Austin will share her experience as an alumna and attorney with Kopelman and Paige, P.C. As a featured panelist on March 11, 2015, Attorney Austin will participate in a program presented to Latin School students who are evaluating potential career paths.
Attorney Patricia A. Cantor’s article entitled “Municipal Zoning Regulation and Medical Marijuana in Massachusetts” appears in the current issue of the New England Law Review online, published by the New England School of Law Journal. In this article, Attorney Cantor surveys state-wide municipal responses to the vote on the... read more