Real Estate Law
SJC Confirms Landlords May Obtain Occupancy Payments During Eviction Proceedings and Outlines the Critical Factors
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) handed down a decision Sept. 16 confirming that judges hearing summary process eviction cases have the legal and equitable authority to require tenants to...
Insights and tips from legal professionals: Gary P. Lilienthal
EK: Where did you grow up? LILIENTHAL: I grew up in the Boston area, went to the University of California-Berkeley in the ’60s for undergrad, and then Boston College Law. EK: What made...
Straight Talk: Craft Beer and Strategies for Raising Capital
Bernkopf Goodman LLP moderated a panel of regional craft brewers and representatives of lenders/equity investors to discuss raising capital in the craft brewery industry. Two regional craft brewers, Dan Lanigan of...
Abutters who didn’t appeal ZBA decision can’t block project
Waited 8 years to file zoning enforcement action By: Eric T. Berkman, December 13, 2017 Truro residents who appealed a permit to build a nonconforming single-family home but did not challenge the Zoning...