H. Theodore Cohen is Of Counsel to Keegan Werlin LLP. Mr. Cohen specializes in municipal law, real estate law and land use regulation. Mr. Cohen served as Town Counsel to the Town of Reading, Massachusetts from 1972 to 2001 and has provided Town Counsel or City Solicitor services to the Towns of Brookline, Carver and Duxbury and to the City of Newburyport, and Special Town Counsel services to the Towns of Amherst, Easton and Norwell and to the Planning Board of the Town of Falmouth. Mr. Cohen also has provided General Counsel services to the Martha's Vineyard Commission and to the Massachusetts Municipal Association. Mr. Cohen represents public and private clients in a variety of real estate transactions including purchases, sales, leases, financing and construction of residential and commercial properties.

Before joining the firm in 1997, Mr. Cohen was an associate and partner at Tyler & Reynolds Professional Corporation for over twenty years and Of Counsel to MacGregor & Shea P.C. Prior to receiving his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.

Mr. Cohen is admitted to practice before the bars of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Massachusetts City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association, the Property Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association and is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation..

AREAS OF PRACTICE
Municipal Law
Real Estate Law
Land Use & Zoning

BAR ADMISSIONS
Massachusetts, 1972
U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1973
U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1974
U.S. Supreme Court, 1978

EDUCATION
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1972, J.D.
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1969
A.B. American Civilization
Honors: Cum Laude

PUBLISHED WORKS
"Community Zoning Bylaw Options for Meeting Basic Non-Procedural Requirements" A Guide to Massachusetts New Zoning Act, University of Massachusetts, 1977
"Alteration of Nonconforming Structures and Uses under the Zoning Act: Is there a Difference between Lawful and Unlawful?" co-author with Barry P. Fogel and Cheryl A. Blaine, Massachusetts Bar Association Section Review, Summer, 2002
"Public Ways, Private Ways and Easements" Road and Access Law: Successfully Handling Disputes, National Business Institute, March, 2006
"Recent Developments in Real Estate Law" Recent Developments in Federal and Massachusetts Law 2006, co-authored with Kathleen M. O'Donnell, Massachusett Continuing Legal Education/Massachusetts Bar Association

REPRESENTATIVE CASES
Town of Brookline v. County Commissioners of Norfolk County, 367 Mass. 345
Madlyn A. Fafard v. Conservation Commission of Reading, 41 Mass.App.Ct. 565, 672 N.E.2d 21
North Landers Corporation v. Planning Board of Falmouth, 382 Mass. 432
Maria A. Kirtas, Trustee, et al. v Town of Aquinnah, et al, 64 Mass.App.Ct. 285, 833 N.E. 2d 157

REFERENCES
Town of Reading, MA.
City of Newburyport, MA
Transit Realty Associates, LLC

HONORS AWARDS
Massachusetts Superlawyer, 2004 - Present

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Town Counsel, Reading, Massachusetts, 1972 - 2001

International Municipal Lawyers Association, 1977 - Present
Member

Massachusetts City Solicitor and Town Counsel Association, 1972 - Present
Member

Massachusetts Bar Association
Member and Property Section Law Council

American Arbitration Association
Member

PAST EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS

McGregor & Shea, P.C., Of Counsel, 1994 - 1997
Tyler & Reynolds Professional Corporation, Partner, 1978 - 1994
Tyler & Reynolds Professional Corporation, Associate, 1972 - 1978

PRO BONO ACTIVITIES

Commonwealth School Board of Trustees, 1995 - Present
Member, City of Cambridge Commercial Parking Control Committee, 2000 - Present

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