Marcus Errico Emmer Brooks

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Welcome to the internet home of Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C. Although the firm maintains a diverse practice, the most substantial area of its practice involves real estate and real estate-related litigation. The firm's clients include a number of the area’s prominent real estate developers, commercial and residential landlords, construction companies, lenders, real estate management companies, liability insurance carriers, and community associations.

The firm has also been engaged on a number of occasions to act as local Massachusetts counsel for out-of-state lenders and real estate developers, working in cooperation with attorneys and law firms from other areas of the country.

Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C. also maintains a substantial practice in the area of community association law. This field of law involves the representation of owner organizations such as condominium boards, homeowners' associations, cooperative corporations and similar entities. At present, the firm represents over 2,700 such associations, constituting the largest practice in this field in New England, and one of the largest in the nation. The principals (partners) of the firm have concentrated in this area of law for as many as 20 years and are among the leaders in the industry, both in New England and on the national level. Three of our attorneys, Stephen M. Marcus, V. Douglas Errico and Seth Emmer, have been admitted to the Community Association Institute's national "College of Community Association Lawyers".

Areas of practice include:

	all aspects of land and building acquisition
	zoning, land use and environmental regulation
	title issues
	title insurance
	construction contracts
	construction disputes
	eminent domain and regulatory takings

	construction and permanent mortgage financing
	commercial and residential landlord-tenant matters
	liability defense
	condominium development, counsel & collections
	time-share resort development
	tax abatements
	employment disputes

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Our attorneys have also been extremely active over the years in legislation at the local, state and national levels. Attorneys from Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C. have authored and/or advocated for numerous legislative changes in the law, ranging from local zoning by-law and ordinance amendments to changes in the state and federal statutes and regulations. As one might expect, the firm's attorneys have also been involved in significant judicial rulings relating to zoning, land use and condominium law in recent years, and a number of our attorneys devote their practices solely to litigation and dispute-resolution.

Although matters are generally handled on an hourly fee basis, the firm is open to discussion of other fee arrangements under appropriate circumstances, including flat fees for certain services, as well as a "blended rate" structure, whereby all attorneys and paralegals are billed at the same hourly rate in connection with a matter or case.

Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C.

45 Braintree Office Park, Braintree, MA 02184

Telephone: (781) 843-5000 Fax: (781) 843-1529

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