Nicholas P. Shapiro
Work in Phillips & Angley
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
Business Law, Family Law, Car Accidents, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Contracts, Communications, Eminent Domain, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal Malpractice, Land Use & Zoning, State, Local & Municipal, Alternative Dispute Resolution
1 Washington St. Suite 7A, Boston, MA 02108
About Nicholas P. Shapiro
Practice Areas
- Business Law
- Family Law
- Car Accidents
- Personal Injury
- Real Estate
- Contracts
- Communications
- Eminent Domain
- Ethics & Professional Responsibility
- Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Legal Malpractice
- Land Use & Zoning
- State, Local & Municipal
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education
- Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 2008J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Dean's List
- Honors: Jurisprudence Award, Antitrusts, 2007
- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2002B.A.
- Major: English & Philosophy
- Honors: Dean's List
Representative Cases
- Successfully argued motion for summary judgment/for judgment on the pleadings, defending developer/client’s ANR endorsement for subdivision that violated condition/covenant granted in connection with underlying definitive plan approval, against abutter appeal in the Land Court.
- Successfully argued motion to dismiss and obtained dismissal of Chapter 40A, Section 17 appeal of special permits to convert an existing hotel into a mixed-use development, in Superior Court, owing to the plaintiff’s lack of standing.
- Successfully argued motion for summary judgment, clearing title to client’s property of putative easement rights over cart paths extending over clients property, and having the Court declare that client’s property was not subject to restrictive covenant applicable to adjacent subdivision.
- Successfully made closing arguments in trial through which access rights over paper way bisecting clients’ lawn were extinguished by abandonment, in the Land Court.
- Successfully argued motion for summary judgment and procuring dismissal of action to perfect mechanic’s lien against client’s property, in the District Court.
- Successfully argued opposition to motion for judicial endorsement of a memorandum of lis pendens in an abutter appeal of ANR endorsement, in the Land Court.
- Successfully defended against motion for real estate attachment, based on the Massachusetts homestead law and a resulting trust theory, in the Superior Court.
- Successfully argued against an application to expand a preexisting, nonconforming structure and convert a single-family residence into two single-family residential units before local zoning board, on behalf of abutter client.
- Successfully negotiated a six-figure settlement of an abutter zoning appeal in Boston, in the Housing Court.
- Successfully argued the appeal in Commonwealth v. Landing Group, Inc., Mass. Appeals Court Docket No. 20-P-686, contending that the MA Wetlands Protection Act includes protection for repairs to and maintenance of preexisting structures in jurisdictional resource areas
- Successfully argued special motion to dismiss, pursuant to the so-called anti-SLAPP statute, G. L. c. 231, § 59H, against a slander of title counterclaim, in Iannuzzi v. Bondi-Pickles, 29 LCR 334 (July 15, 2021) (17 MISC 000564) (Vhay, J.)
- Successfully argued the appeal in Kubic v. Audette, 98 Mass. App. Ct. 289, 156 N.E.3d 204 (2020), and on clarification and post-trial briefing on remand before the Land Court, concerning the ownership, littoral boundaries of, and use rights over, a right of way connecting a public way to a great pond
Classes and Seminars
- "Real Estate Litigation: Real Estate & Environmental Professional Development Plan Unit 13," at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, panelist on “Pre-Litigation Strategy,” “Introduction to the Land Court,” “Overview of G. L. c. 40A, § 17,” and “Common Easement Issues” (2/25/15)
- "Litigating Real Estate Disputes," at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education program, panelist on “Litigating in the Land Court" and "Easement Disputes Post-M.P.M. Builders" (2/5/2013)
- “Easements and Restrictions: Law and Essential Practice Pointers for Attorneys and Paralegals,” at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, panelist (2/12/20, 2/10/21 & 2/10/22)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 2008
- U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 2014
Other Affiliations
- Real Estate Bar Association, 2011 - Present (Member)
- Real Estate Bar Association, Land Use and Zoning Section, 2018 - Present (Co-Chair)
- Real Estate Bar Association, New Lawyers Section, 2015 - 2017 (Co-Chair)
- Real Estate Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2017 - Present (Member)
- Boston Bar Association, 2016 - Present (Member)
- Boston Bar Association (Co-Chair of the Land Use and Development Subcommittee 2019)
- American Bar Association, 2014 - Present (Member)
- American Bar Association, Real Estate Litigation & Condemnation Committee’s Newsletter, 2016 - Present (Co-Editor-in-Chief)
- Abstract Club (MA), 2021 (Member)
- Real Estate Bar Association (MA), Executive Committee, 2020 - Present (Member)
Past Positions
- Massachusetts Appeals Court, Law Clerk, 2009 - 2010
- Massachusetts Land Court, Law Clerk, 2008 - 2009
Fees
- Offers Free Initial Consultation
- Accepts Credit Cards
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- 38 years of experienceBusiness Law, Family Law, Car Accidents, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Contracts, Communications, Eminent Domain, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal Malpractice, Land Use & Zoning, State, Local & Municipal, Alternative Dispute Resolution
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