The Brookline Lawyers
located in the heart of Brookline Village, Massachusetts.
Our attorneys serve the Greater Boston community and have a formidable reputation for representing local businesses, families, and individuals in a variety of legal matters.
Real Estate Law
Our real estate attorneys have served property owners, landlords, condo associations, management companies, builders, developers, buyers, sellers, and lenders involved in residential and commercial real estate transactions in Brookline as well as throughout the Greater Boston region.
Estate Planning
We have been assisting Massachusetts residents with their wills, trust and estate planning needs for over 30 years. We provide representation for all types of clients, from the young family just starting out to retirees who want their grandchildren to benefit from their success.
Small Business
As a small business owner, you might need some assistance with a legal contract, or creating an LLC, or to obtain business licenses and don’t know where to start. We can help with all your legal business needs.
Local Municipal Laws
Our attorneys appear before local city and town’s Board of Selectmen on a regular basis to represent clients in all types of municipal legal matters like land use, zoning restrictions, planning, liquor licenses, permits, and to defend against local municipal enforcement actions.
Our law firm plays a vital role in helping individuals, families, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in Brookline and the Greater Boston region become established and grow. We count many of the areas businesses and families as our respected clients. Our attorneys focus primarily in Real Estate Law, Wills & Estates, Small Business, and Municipal Law.
Providing Personalized Legal Representation, Professional Excellence and Integrity to Brookline and beyond.
Trusted Advice
For more than 30 years, we have counted many of the areas businesses, families, and entrepreneurs as our respected clients.
Top Rated Attorneys
We have the experience, knowledge and resources to provide clients with effective and efficient legal representation.
Communication
We believe open and honest communication with our clients lead to a trusting relationship and productive outcomes.
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If you have a legal problem and would like a case evaluation, we invite you to contact us and speak with an attorney.
Our law firm plays a vital role in helping individuals, families, entrepreneurs and small businesses in the Greater Boston, Massachusetts region in legal matters pertaining to real estate, wills & estate planning, small business, and local municipal laws. We count many of the area’s businesses and families as our respected clients. We take our commitment to the legal profession, to our community, and to our clients seriously.
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Compassion
We will always treat you with respect and dignity.
Confidence
We will always zealously represent your best interests.
Communication
We will always be open, honest, and straightforward.
What our clients say...
During the past two decades, I’ve had the privilege to refer to Attorney David Jensen on all Legal matters regarding real estate. …
“I have referred real estate clients to Christopher Shannon for several years and my clients and I have always been pleased. Attorney …
“Look no further!! I am a Real Estate Broker in the Brookline/Boston area and I have worked with Christopher Shannon on many …
“We worked with Christopher Shannon on the purchase of our home in Brookline. The process was somewhat involved – since, as we …
“I worked with Christopher on two transactions this year. The first was the purchase of a new house. The second was the …
A 1031 exchange is known as a like-kind exchange and can be an effective tool for those who have investment real estate. …
In an ongoing case, a management company prepared a check to a tenant who had recently vacated an apartment. The inspection of …
A commercial client barred a neighbor from renting parking spaces on its property. The neighbor alleged ownership due to “adverse possession” claiming …
Our client was riding a motorcycle in a rural road in W. Massachusetts when he was attacked by a large German Shepard …
Our clients were aggrieved by a decision of the local Zoning Board of Appeals, granting a developer the right to relocate their …
Legal Articles
The 1031 Exchange – An Effective Real Estate Investment Resource
A 1031 exchange is known as a like-kind exchange and can be an effective tool for those who have investment real estate. When selling investment real estate, most people face a significant tax burden. A like-kind exchange can significantly reduce or even eliminate this burden, by deferring a capital gains tax which might otherwise arise
Landlords can be liable if tenant doesn’t pay
If a tenant hires a contractor to make improvements to a property, but the tenant doesn’t pay the contractor in full, can the contractor sue the landlord for the difference? It sounds unlikely, but it happened in one case recently. Former Boston Celtics player Dana Barros leased a warehouse and hired a contractor to make
Always have a property inspected
A couple who purchased a condo in a building that turned out to be contaminated with toxic chemicals can recover only 65% of their losses, because they could have arranged an environmental inspection of the property before they bought it but didn’t do so, a Court of Appeals recently decided. The couple bought a condo
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Our attorneys have the experience, knowledge and resources to provide clients with effective and efficient legal representation. Our attorneys serve the entire Greater Boston region including all Norfolk County and Middlesex County, as well as Allston, Belmont, Brighton, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chestnut Hill, Cleveland Circle, Coolidge Corner, Dedham, Dover, Jamaica Plain, Milton, Needham, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston.
617-566-2300
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Our office location
27 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02445