Amanda Zuretti

Overview

Real estate and land use attorney Amanda Zuretti focuses her practice on affordable and market rate housing development and sustainable energy projects.

She is Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s (MBA) Public Law Section Council and an active member of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association (MMLA), the Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) and the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition.

Amanda has taught and facilitated programs for the MBA, the MMLA, REBA and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) on practicing with professionalism; legislative drafting; mortgage and tax foreclosure; preserving agricultural and forest land; and municipal management of abandoned and distressed real estate.

Amanda is also a co-editor of the Commercial Real Estate Insight & News blog.

Before Bowditch

Prior to Bowditch, Amanda’s expertise in land title and municipal law led her to a position as underwriting counsel to Connecticut Attorneys Title Insurance Company and then to a MetroWest law firm serving as counsel to several Massachusetts municipalities and public agencies.

Besides work

Amanda is a cyclist, kayaker and hiker who holds several Mass Wildlife outdoor skills certificates.

Affiliations

Chair, Public Law Section Council, Massachusetts Bar Association
Member, Board of Directors, Hopkinton Center for the Arts
Member, Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
Member, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association
Member, Real Estate Bar Association
Member, Boston Bar Association
Member, Women’s Bar Association
Member, MetroWest Leadership Academy Class of 2022

Vice-Chair, Public Law Council, Massachusetts Bar Association
Mentor, Massachusetts Bar Association’s Tiered Community Mentor Program

Honors

Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2024)

Articles + Talks

Articles

“Municipal and Miscellaneous Liens,” MCLE’s Massachusetts Real Estate Liens, 2023

Talks

Clean/Renewable Energy Incentives for Business, Massachusetts Energy Summit, Worcester Business Journal, 2023 (Moderator)
Legislative Drafting, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2020
Open Meeting Law, Conflict of Interest Law and Public Records Law Primer and Update, City of Framingham, 2020
Remote Possibility: Virtual Tools for Public Contracts, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, 2020
Drafting Bylaws and Ordinances, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2020
Annual Alcohol Licensee Seminar, City of Framingham, 2020
Seeing Green: Zoning and Marijuana, Social Law Library, 2019
Payment Disputes: Payment Bonds and Demands for Direct Payment under M.G.L. c. 30, § 39M, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, 2019

Media Mentions

“From the Ground Up” (Northeastern Law Magazine)

Bar Admissions

Massachusetts
New Hampshire
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Education

J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
B.A., Bates College

Experience

Negotiated leases, Power Purchase Agreements and Bill Credit Payment Agreements for solar facilities at an agency overseeing revenue-funded facilities at Massachusetts universities
Represented developer with successful applications for Affordable Housing Trust Funds grant and for both local and state M.G.L. c. 40V Housing Development Incentive tax credits to create 22 affordable home ownership units in 220-unit mixed tenure housing development and office to residential conversion
Obtained decision from Town Zoning Board of Appeals that commercial tree processing business was not incident to or in conjunction with farming operations, and therefore not subject to the protections of M.G.L. c. 40A, § 3, first par., or the Town’s Right to Farm Bylaw or Zoning Bylaws
Advised public bodies on compliance requirements of the Open Meeting Law, M.G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-25 and the Attorney General’s regulations at 940 CMR 29.00, et. seq.
Responded to complaints filed with the Attorney General’s Division of Open Government against public bodies and advised Records Access Officers as to disclosure of public records [as defined under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66, § 10] and the exemptions from disclosure [under M.G.L. c. 4, § 7, clause Twenty-sixth or other legally applicable privileges] and reporting requirements pertaining to access to particular records in accordance with 950 CMR 32.00