on June 29, 2010, Attorney Brian Riley will be faculty for the seminar on Freedom of Information and Public Records Law. Offered as part of the Massachusetts Bar Association Continuing Legal Education program (MCLE), participants will learn what type of information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records... read more
On May 6, 2010, Attorney Ilana Quirk, co-chair of Kopelman and Paige’s Land Use practice, will present a two hour seminar on the interrelationship of the State Building Code with zoning, subdivision control and other statutory requirements, with ane emphasis on permitting and enforcement issues. This seminar will be... read more
on May 17, 2010, a New All Town Memorandum detailing Amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act was sent to all Kopelman and Paige clients. This analysis was written by Attorney Michele Randazzo or our Labor and Employment Groupo.
Attorneys Kay Doyle and Jay Tehan obtained a significant victory for the Town of Amesbury by securing a defense verdict in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a challenging civil rights case. The plaintiff alleged that the Town of Amesbury had violated his right... read more
On April Attorney Kay Doyle gave a presentation to the Massachusetts Library Association on “Constitutional Considerations when Dealing with Disruptive Patrons” in which she discussed common situations faced by library staff and patrons and provided a response framework that preserves the rights of library patrons under the U.S. Constitution... read more
On April 6, 2010, Attorney Elizabeth Lane will present a seminar of interest to highway superintendents and other local officials, entitled “Rights and Obligations of Municipalities in the Creation and Maintenance of Public Ways.”
In March, 2010, Attorney Elizabeth A. Lane presented a seminar entitled “Writing Reasonable and Defensible Decisions” at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Citizen Planning Training Collaborative. A frequent speakr on this and other zoning, planning, and land use subjects, Attorney Lane explained longstanding and recent court decisions that... read more
Assessment cases involving mobile home parks are rare, and there is little precedent for municipal officials to follow. Now, in the case CJD Real Estate Limited Partnership v. Board of Assessors of the Town of Chelmsford, et al., (Appellate Tax Board Nos. F298316 & F304236) the Appellate Tax Board... read more
Attorneys Kay Doyle and Joel Bard received an Appeals Court affirmation of their victory on behalf of the Town of Pembroke in Plymouth Superior Court in Town of Pembroke v. Foundation for Humanity. The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a Superior Court judgment in favor of the Town, finding that... read more
Attorney George Pucci, a senior litigator in our Land Use Group, has obtained a major victory for the Town of Weston and the Weston Zoning Board of Appeals to prevent construction of a massive 362-unit luxury housing development in a single-family residential district, in violation of the Town’s Zoning... read more