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Thomas O. Moriarty - Boston, MA
175 Federal StreetSuite 1210 Boston, MA 02110
Moriarty Troyer & Malloy LLC
Boston General Representation Lawyer
Overview
Tom is a partner in the firm and chair of its Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on real property with an emphasis on condominium law. Tom appears in both state and federal court, representing clients in zoning and land use litigation, title disputes, prescriptive easement and adverse possession claims, beach rights and water front disputes, construction defect and transitional litigation, common area property disputes, condominium phasing and development matters.
Tom's commitment to the real estate and common interest ownership industries extends beyond his representation of clients in those sectors. He is president-elect of the Real Estate Bar Association, a past co-chair of REBA's Litigation Committee and currently a member of the organization's Board of Directors and its Executive Committee. He is also REBA's designee to the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Nominations. In the condominium arena, Tom is actively involved in the Community Associations Institute nationally and regionally, serving as chair of the Massachusetts Legislative Action Committee and as a member of CAI's National Amicus Team. Recognized as an authority on condominium and real property litigation, Tom serves frequently as a faculty panelist for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminars, the most recent of them focusing on "Condominium Litigation," "Real Estate Litigation" and "Resolving Complex Title Disputes." Recognized also as one of the Bay State's outstanding attorneys, Tom has been named to Law & Politics' list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers every year since 2005 and maintains an AV rating with Martindale Hubbell.
About Thomas O. Moriarty
Practice Areas
- General Representation
- Common Expense Lien Enforcement
- General/Civil/Commercial Litigation
- Construction Defect and Transition Litigation
- Commercial Real Estate Law
- Zoning and Land Use
- Employment Law
- Appellate Practice
Litigation
- 90%
Current Employment Position(s)
- Attorney
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New Hampshire, 1995
- Massachusetts, 1992
- Florida, 1996
- U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1993
- U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire, 1995
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1995
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States of America
Other Affiliations
- Massachusetts Bar Association (Member)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2007 - 2008 (Co-chair, Litigation Committee)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2007 - Present (Member, Board of Directors)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2008 - Present (Treasurer)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2010 - Present (President)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2008 - Present (Executive Committee)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2011 - 2017 (Co-chair, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2011 - 2017 (Co-chair, Residential Conveyancing Committee)
- Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, 2018 - Present (Co-chair, Condominium Law & Practice Section)
- Community Associations Institute (College of Community Association Lawyers)
- Community Associations Institute (Board of Governors)
- Community Associations Institute, 1995 - Present (Member, National Amicus Team)
- Community Associations Institute of New England (Chair)
- Community Associations Institute of New England, 2021 - Present (President)
- Community Associations Institute of New England, 2006 - 2011 (Legislative Action Committee)
- Community Associations Institute of New England, 2018 - Present (Board Member)
- Community Associations Institute of New England, 2020 - Present (President-Elect)
- American Resort Development Association (Past Chair)
- American Resort Development Association, 2001 - 2002 (New England Legislative Action Committee)
Education
- Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992
J.D.
Honors: Member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team - University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990
B.A.
Honors: cum laude
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Beta Kappa
Classes and Seminars
- Lecturer, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.’s Annual Real Estate Law Conference on Condominium Rule Making and Constitutional Limitations, 2017 - Present
- Lecturer, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.’s Annual Real Estate Law Conference on Condominium Phasing: The Myriad of Issues—and the Practical Solutions, 2016 - Present
- Lecturer, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.’s Annual Real Estate Law Conference, 2012 - Present
- Lecturer at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar on “Condominium Litigation”, 2007 - Present
- Lecturer at Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association Spring Seminar – “The Shifting Sands of Massachusetts Beach Rights”, 2006 - Present
- Lecturer at Community Associations Institute’s National Law Seminar on “Capital Improvements – What Are They and What Do You Do With Them”, 2005 - Present
- Lecturer, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar on “Real Estate Litigation”, 2004
- “Condominium Litigation: Practice Points” in Litigating Real Estate Disputes, (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.), 2004 - Present
- Lecturer, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminar on “Resolving Complex Title Issues” – Condominiums, 2003 - 2004
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Thomas O. Moriarty
Included on the 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2006 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
- 2005 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Community Associations Institute, Award of Excellence in Government and Public Affairs, 2015 - Present
- Community Associations Institute, Award of Excellence in Government and Public Affairs, 1999 - 2000
- Community Associations Institute, Award of Excellence in Government and Public Affairs, 2007 - 2008
- Law & Politics Massachusetts Super Lawyer, 2005 - Present
- Boston Magazine, Top Appellate Lawyer, Boston and Metro area, 2021 - Present
Office Information
Address
175 Federal StreetSuite 1210 Boston, MA 02110
Phone
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Websites
Publication
Articles
- Chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.’s Annual Real Estate Law Conference, 2015
- Co-author of Condominium Litigation (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.), 2007
- “Daddario vs. Cape Cod Commission, a Look Ahead”, Land Planner Magazine, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 1996
- “Marinelli v. Bd. of Appeals of Stoughton, Common Lot Protection Under Chapter 40A, Section 6” (Massachusetts Bar Association, Section Review, Vol. 6, No. 3), 2004
Representative Cases
- Kettle Brook Lofts, LLC, et al., v. Specht, et al., 100 Mass.App.Ct. 359 (2021)
- Prevailed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB v. Collart, 980 F.3d 210 (2020)
- The Trustees of Beechwood Village Condominium Trust v. USAlliance Federal Credit Union, 95 Mass. App. 278 (2019)
- Drummer Boy Homes Association, Inc. v. Britton, 474 Mass. 17 (2016)
- Wyman v. Ayer Properties, LLC, 469 Mass. 64 (2014)
- Daddario v. Cape Cod Commission, 425 Mass. 411 (1997)
- Brennan v. GTE, 150 F.3d 21 (1998)
- Town of Milford v. Boyd, 434 Mass. 754 (2001)
- Daddario v. Cape Cod Commission, 56 Mass.App.Ct. 764 (2002)
- Cumberland Farms Inc. v. Planning Board of Bourne; 56 Mass.App.Ct. 605 (2002)
- Queler v. Skowron, 438 Mass. 304 (2002)
- Marinelli v. Town of Stoughton, 440 Mass. 255 (2003)
- GPT-Acton, LLC v. Department of Environmental Protection, 64 Mass.App.Ct. 103 (2005)
- Cumberland Farms, Inc. v. Planning Bd. of Bourne, 67 Mass.App.Ct. 67 (2006)
- Lobisser Bldg. Corp. v.Planning Bd. of Bellingham, 454 Mass. 123 (2009)
- Czyoski v. Planning Bd. of Truro, 77 Mass.App.Ct. 151 (2010)
- Kelley v. Iantosca, 78 Mass.App.Ct. 147 (2010)
- Bd. of Mgrs. of Old Colony Vill. Condominium v. Preu, 80 Mass.App.Ct. 728 (2011)
- Union v. Bloomberg, 88 Mass.App.Ct. 671 (2015)
- Drummer Boy Homes Association, Inc. v. Carolyn P. Britton & another, 474 Mass. 17 (2016)
- Beechwood v. USAlliance Federal Credit Union, 95 Mass. App. Ct. 278 (2019)
- Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB v. Collart, 980 F.3d 210 (2020)
- Beechwood Village Condominium Trust v. USAlliance Federal Credit Union, 100 Mass.App.Ct. 192 (2021)
- Kettle Brook Lofts, LLC v. Specht, 100 Mass.App.Ct. 359 (2021)
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