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Recent Firm News
- Dain Torpy Featured in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Dain Torpy is Featured in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Empowering Women Feature. Read the feature here. - Dan Dain Co-Authors Banker & Tradesman Article
Read the article, “Solving the Commonwealth’s Housing Crisis Takes Ideas, Big and Small — What You Need to Know About Important Changes to Zoning Laws” - Dan Dain’s “A History of Boston” Makes The List
Marginal Revolution has published their list of the best non-fiction books of 2025. “A History of Boston” is featured on the list. Congratulations, Dan. Read more about Marginal Revolution and the list here. - RJ Lyman Featured in Boston Globe
RJ Lyman is featured in a recent Boston Globe article about Faneuil Hall. Read the full story here. - Daniel Dain Quoted in The Boston GlobeDaniel Dain is quoted in a recent Boston Globe article about Boston’s Mayor Wu’s focus on jobs, rather than real estate, to grow the city’s economy. Read the full story here.
- Joseph D. Feaster RecognizedJoseph D. Feaster Jr. has been recognized by the State Senate with an “official citation” as part of the Commonwealth’s “Living Histories of Color” and for his “powerful impact as a changemaker and a living part of our history.
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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