Real Estate - Commercial

I graduated from Law School in 2008. During law school I worked as a legal assistant at a small real estate and business law firm. After graduation, I practiced as a civil litigator. I am now employed at a Boston based real estate development company and specialize in retail leasing.

After 20 years as a real estate partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart and Burns & Levinson, Steve Charlip now provides high-end, sophisticated real estate legal servicesat billable rates substantially less than the large Boston firms. Steve Charlip specializes in all facets of real estate law - acquisitions, financing, development, leasing, dispositions, permitting, financing - for all types of real estate: office, industrial, R&D, retail, multi-family and residential.

I am a sole pracitioner wtih fifteen years experience in general practice concentrating in civil litigation- particularly in collections/creditors' rights. I handle pre and post judgment collections cases involving consumer and business debt. I handle residential and commercial real estate- buying, selling and leasing. I also handle residential and commercial landlord/tenant matters and evictions.

I am an associate at Pabian & Russell, LLC, concentrating in the areas of immigration and corporate law. Received his Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 2008 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Chinese language and English from Union College in 2004. While at Villanova, I was the recipient of the 2008 Villanova University School of Law Dorothy Day Award for Community Service and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Immigration Raid Coalition. I also served as Vice-President and Secretary of the Pro Bono Society and participated in the Villanova Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic (FLAC). I am proficient in Mandarin Chinese and spent a semester studying in China at Nanjing Teachers University, and additionally studied international law at Beijing Normal University. I am admitted to practice before the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I am also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition.

Principal of Holiday Law Firm P.C. located in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, Michael Holiday’s practice includes commercial office and retail leasing, commercial real estate development, real estate finance, banking law, secured lending, corporate law, insurance law, finance law and franchise law. Admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Mr. Holiday has extensive experience as a commercial real estate attorney with a boutique commercial leasing practice involving office, retail and industrial properties. Mr. Holiday draws on his experience as an in-house senior real estate attorney for a national retail chain, as an in-house title insurance attorney, as a real estate broker and as an incorporator of a bank, in addition to being in private practice for many years representing developers, multinational corporations, as well as regional and national retailers. In his practice, he represents corporations and national retail chains, as well as lending institutions, franchisees and franchisors in their acquisition, management, leasing and disposition of their commercial real estate assets and liabilities and can be reached at www.leaselaw.com. Mr. Holiday is a member of: the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC); the New England Corporate Counsel Association (NECCA); the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA) where he sits on its Leasing Committee and its Commercial Real Estate Finance Committee; and the Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from Tufts University (1977) and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the New England School of Law (1983), where he was a member and case editor for the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement. He also went on to earn his LL.M. degree from Boston University School of Law, Morin Center for Banking Law Studies (1987). He frequently lectures for Lorman Educational Services and MCLE.

George R. Halsey counsels start-up companies and individuals in all aspects of technology licensing, marketing and distribution. As a former General Counsel of SunExpress, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, an Associate General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Honeywell, Inc., he was a lead legal negotiator in technology acquisition, licensing, distribution, trans-national transactions and multi-party tax leveraged transactions including transactions in excess of $250 million. Elected chairperson of the Boston Bar Association, Computer Law and Internet Committee, he is a speaker on topics of intellectual property law and legal issues in the life cycle of technology products. He was a founding member of the American Committee for Interoperable Systems (ACIS) which influenced changes in US, European and Japanese copyright law culminating in international treaties promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization portions of which are included in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. He was a member of the legal steering committee that launched the Infiniband Trade Association, (IBM, Sun, Dell, HP and Intel) that defined new standards for high bandwidth interoperable systems. In addition to technology legal matters, he has successfully resolved a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, a European Commission anti-dumping claim of significant magnitude and a number of high level executive employment issues. Mr. Halsey started his legal career as a “first chair” trial and appellate lawyer on numerous civil and criminal jury trials and seven precedent setting appellate cases. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned his JD from the Boston University School of Law.

My practice concentrates in real estate, corporate, trust and estate, and personal injury law. I possess extensive experience in both commercial and residential real estate transactions and condominium conversions, as well as corporate law, business formation, business mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, and trust and estate matters.