Municipal Law
Brooks & DeRensis represents many Massachusetts public agencies, cities, and towns. The consistent growth of our municipal practice reflects an effective problem-solving approach to advising and representing elected and appointed officials. We assist in the day-to-day decision making, planning, and problem-solving faced by Town Managers, licensing boards, county commissions and treasurers, sheriffs, boards of selectmen, registrars of deeds, planning boards, police departments, boards of appeal, building inspectors, special permit granting authorities, historic district commissions, boards of assessors, conservation commissions, and local study committees.
From their decades of public work, each of our municipal attorneys is known for cost-effective work and an aptitude for problem prevention. That work extends to:
- Town Counsel services
- City Solicitor
- Special Counsel
- Collective bargaining and labor relations
- Competitive bidding and procurement
- State ethics laws
- Civil rights
- Contracts
- Finance
- Taxation
- Litigation
- Land use, real estate, historic preservation, eminent domain
- Public liability
- Intergovernmental relations
- Legislation
- Environmental issues, waste disposal, wetland protection