Civil litigation in cases concerning land use (zoning, subdivision control, wetlands, rural water supply and sewage disposal), title to land, easements, restrictive covenants, nuisance, trespass, adverse possession; attorney malpractice, surveyor malpractice, and status of roads; real estate conveyancing & contract disputes.
He has negotiated landowner leases for renewable energy projects. Litigation experience includes all stages, from pleading through pretrial discovery (interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions, depositions), summary judgment, trial (jury or non jury), and appeal. Michael Pill generally does his own title examination in cases requiring search of documents recorded in a Registry of Deeds. Co author of Volumes 28, 28A & 28BMassachusetts Practice: Real Estate Law with Forms, and chapter 28 on eminent domain in Crocker's Notes on Common Forms.
Michael Pill has presented seminars and authored seminar materials for lawyers and land surveyors on surveyor liability, public & private roads, nuisance and trespass, septic systems, land use restrictions, zoning and easements. Michael's clients have included municipalities, private landowners, real estate developers, citizens opposing real estate development, utility and renewable energy companies, and commercial land owners including the largest private landowner in Massachusetts. Initial contact with Michael should be by phone. No charge or obligation for initial phone conversation(s). Please do not send unsolicited emails or documentation. Call first.
Michael is a partner in the law firm of Green, Miles, Lipton & Fitz-Gibbon, which was established in 1981 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The firm, which can handle farm transfers and estate planning, is A-rated by Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory and has been at its present location at 77 Pleasant Street since 1983. Green, Miles, Lipton & Fitz-Gibbon is one of the larger firms in Hampshire and Franklin Counties, with six partners and two associates, all of whom have considerable legal experience across a full spectrum of legal specialties. We are a full service law firm which represents individual, corporate, commercial and institutional clients before state and federal administrative agencies and state and federal courts.
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