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Joel Reck, J.D. Practice Areas: Arbitration, Civil Mediation |
Joel M. Reck comes to TMG with forty years of experience practicing law. A retired partner at Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP and former Chair of the firm's Real Estate Department, Joel's diverse practice included development projects, acquisitions, sales, financings, leases and work-outs for a variety of institutions. Joel has extensive experience with ERISA, securities, and tax matters, and his practice consisted of structuring, managing and closing sophisticated commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States. He has worked on several of the largest recent development projects in the Greater Boston area and handled two of the three largest leases ever undertaken in the City of Boston, in one instance representing the building owner and in the other instance representing a major institutional tenant. Joel received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1966. He is a past President of the Boston Bar Association and Boston Bar Foundation and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), among other real estate organizations. He is also an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School, where he co-teaches a course in transactional law with fellow TMG neutral Rudy Kass. Joel participated as a mediator in the MWI District Court Program, and has acted as a neutral in many complex cases, including a multi-party dispute involving ownership of a large shopping center. He also represented Mayor Menino and the city of Boston in a Washington, D.C. mediation regarding the expansion of Logan Airport. In 2006, Joel earned the top spot on the list of the Nation's Top 10 Real Estate Lawyers published by the United States Lawyer Rankings Guide. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business recently named him a leading individual in real estate law in Massachusetts. Joel is also included in Woodward White's Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law in addition to having been named a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of Law & Politics. Joel is available to serve as either a mediator or an arbitrator at TMG.
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