Our real estate lawyers represent clients in all matters related to real property. These include residential and commercial sales, purchases, and financing; the drafting of leases and easements; research related to rights and titles; and property registration and other matters with the Massachusetts Land Court.

Our estate and trust practice includes the preparation of simple and complex estate planning documents (including wills, trusts, and LLCs), the settlement of estates (including Massachusetts probate and state and federal estate tax filings) and the administration of a variety of trusts.

The firm’s corporate law practice assists clients in a variety of ways, such as acquiring and selling businesses; creating business entities and managing subsequent corporate filings; handling financing of corporate assets; and drafting leases, contracts, and agreements.

Our firm represents five of the six Island towns, plus the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. On a daily basis we answer questions on zoning, land use, board procedure, municipal finance, and in other areas when legal questions arise in the day-to-day business of government.

The firm’s civil litigators represent individual, corporate, non-profit and municipal clients in matters that require court action. We have represented clients in the Probate Court, District Court, Superior Court, Appeals Court, and the Supreme Judicial Court, as well as in the Federal District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.