Experience

Attorney Jeffrey Blake represents Massachusetts cities and towns in litigation matters before the state and federal courts and regulatory agencies. He is experienced in all aspects of general municipal law and assists clients with a variety of issues, including land use, eminent domain, Appellate Tax Board practice, municipal charters and by-laws, environmental permitting, cable television licensing, and municipal finance. Attorney Blake also has extensive experience in advising clients with respect to compliance with state and federal environmental regulations.

Representative Matters

• Town of Wellesley DPW, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Norfolk Superior Court Civil Action No. 08-00174. Represented the Towns of Harwich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, North Reading, Millis, and the City of Brockton in a successful challenge to the authority of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to condition a Water Registration Statement renewal.
  
• Paulino d/b/a Wareham Laundry Center v. Town of Wareham, Barnstable Superior Court, Civil Action No. 07-00020. Successfully defended the Town in a challenge to its method of calculating sewer user fees.
• Thore v. Howe, U.S. District Court, C.A. No. 03-CV-11999-NG (2006). Assisted in the representation of defendant in a police excessive force case involving numerous allegations of civil rights violations resulting in a favorable defense verdict on summary judgment.
• Barbara Deighton Haupt, Trustee of BD Realty Trust v. Town of Wareham, et al., U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts C.A. No. 05-11745-RWZ (2007). Assisted in the defense of the Town in this eminent domain action securing a verdict that reduced the plaintiff’s claimed value of the taken property by $1.5 million dollars.
• Represented and negotiated favorable compliance schedules in numerous cities’ and towns’ appeals of a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit before the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Represents or has represented numerous cities and towns in Massachusetts in all phases of cable television license renewals including negotiations, consultations, evaluations, and drafting and execution of contracts.
• Represented clients (cities and towns) and obtained favorable results via trial or settlement negotiations in more than thirty (30) eminent domain proceedings throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  

Prior Experience

Massachusetts Appeals Court, Boston, MA
Law Clerk for the Honorable William I. Cowin (2001-2003)

Memberships & Affiliations

• Massachusetts Bar Association

Bar & Court Admissions

• Massachusetts Bar
• U.S. District Court (Mass.)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Education

New England School of Law
Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 2001
Trustee Bradbury Gilbert Award for Excellence in Achievement
Editor-in-chief, New England Law Review

Norwich University
Bachelor of Arts, 1997

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