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Recent Firm News
- Dain Torpy Launches Newsletter
We are excited to share that our firm has just launched a newsletter! We will be sharing firm updates, legal insights, and a look inside our culture – from community involvement to special guests and events at the firm. Please contact us to receive future issues. Read the Summer 2025 Edition. - Dan Dain Featured in Banker & Tradesman
We’re pleased to share that Daniel P. Dain contributed to an opinion piece in Banker & Tradesman titled, “Three Small Housing Reforms with Outsized Potential in Mass.” Read the full article. - Dain Torpy NominatedDain Torpy has been nominated in the Commercial Real Estate Law Firm category for Banker & Tradesman’s Best of 2025. Vote here: https://lnkd.in/eEVc-q_S.
- Dain Torpy Staff are Backpack Buddies
Dain Torpy once again aided in the Backpack Buddies initiative with Heading Home where we committed to packing 25 backpacks full of school supplies to help students in the Eastern Massachusetts community. Learn more about Backpack Buddies. - Kate Moran Carter Quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Kate Carter was recently quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly regarding The Appeals Court’s decision in Sunpin, reaffirming the legislative protection of solar projects under the Dover Amendment. Read the article. - Dan Dain Invited to Testify on Zoning Reform Bill
Dan Dain was invited by REBA to testify before the Massachusetts Senate Committee on a zoning reform bill that he helped draft. He spoke on the critical need for thoughtful, strategic updates to the state’s zoning framework, drawing on his deep experience in land use and real estate development law.
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Recent Firm Publications
Dain Torpy was recently honored by the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts (REBA) to be charged with the task of co-authoring an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief on behalf of REBA in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) case Attorney General vs. Town of Milton. This critically important case pertains to whether the Attorney General has the authority to enforce and compel compliance with the MBTA Communities Act – a law passed in 2021 as a central component of Governor Baker’s Housing Choice Initiative in an effort to spur the development of much-needed housing in locations with access to public transportation. To that end, MBTA Communities requires 177 towns and cities in eastern and central Massachusetts to allow multifamily housing near MBTA transit stations as a matter of right. (September 2024)
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Daniel P. Dain: History of Boston, excerpt (2023)
An Excerpt from the forthcoming “A HISTORY OF BOSTON – TELLING THE STORY OF THIS CITY; ALL OF IT.” (Chapter 6, An Industrial Revolution)
R.J. Lyman: Article (Fall 2022)
INTRODUCTION TO LOGISTICS FACILITIES & THE NEW ENGLAND MARKET
R.J. Lyman: Banker & Tradesman (July 2022)
RULING CREATES UNCERTAINTY ABOUT FUTURE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
Daniel P. Dain: Real Estate Bar Association News (September 2020)
SJC: NO PER SE ZONING INJURIES AS BASIS FOR STANDING
Caythar Nene: Banker & Tradesman (April 2020)
LANDLORD, TENANTS HAVE OPTIONS AS COVID-19 DISRUPTS BUSINESSES
Kate M. Carter: Boston Bar Association Journal (Summer 2019)
BELLALTA: A FLOWCHART FOR THE OWNER OF A NONCONFORMING HOME