Municipal Experience

Attorney Michael E. Malamut’s practice focuses on counselling and litigation in the areas of land use, labor and employment, administrative, and general municipal law. As a Certified Professional Parliamentarian, he also advises municipalities, nonprofits, and business corporations on meeting procedures, parliamentary questions, and governance issues. He has written numerous articles, including several which analyze Town Meeting Time. Attorney Malamut has served as an elected Town Meeting member and serves as a member of local committees in his home community.

Prior to joining our firm, Attorney Malamut was Deputy General Counsel for the New England Legal Foundation, where he drafted amicus curiæ briefs regarding land use, labor and employment, and administrative law in all courts in New England and the United States Supreme Court. Prior to that he was Assistant General Counsel to the Boston Housing Authority.

Parliamentary Experience

• American Institute of Parliamentarians—Certified Professional Parliamentarian; Teacher of Parliamentary Procedure; Opinions Committee Member (2001–present)
• National Association of Parliamentarians—Professional Registered Parliamentarian
• Joint Committee of AIP, NAP, and the Robert’s Rules Association (copyright holder for Robert’s Rules of Order) on Proposed Revisions to the Model Nonprofit Corporations Act—Chair (2006–present)
• American College of Parliamentary Lawyers—Treasurer (2007–present), incorporator

Publications

• THE POWER TO TAKE: THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN IN MASSACHUSETTS, Pioneer Institute White Paper No. 15 (Dec. 2000)
• Article, The Impact of the Ardemore Case and Chapter 40B on Community Associations, CONDOMEDIA vol. 14, no. 7 (Oct. 2003)
• Article, The Ardemore Case and the Future of Zoning Overrides under General Laws Chapter 40B, MASS. BAR ASSN. SEC. REV., vol. 5, no. 1 (2003)
• Book Review, We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court (Michael J. Perry 1999), BIMONTHLY REV. L. BOOKS, Nov.–Dec. 2000
• Opinion, Property investments under water? Dealing with the effects of ‘Moot’ on filled, landlocked tidelands, MASSACHUSETTS LAWYERS WEEKLY, April 29, 2002, at 11
• Opinion, Mystifying Massachusetts Employment Law, MASSACHUSETTS LAWYERS WEEKLY, March 26, 2007

• Viewpoint, Massachusetts: Leader or Laggard in OUI Laws? MASS. LAWYERS WEEKLY, June 2, 2003

Presentations

• Judge, New England In-House, In-House Lawyers of the Year Awards, April 26, 2007
• Featured Presenter, Giovanella v. Conservation Commission of Ashland, Boston Bar Association, Environmental Litigation Committee, Jan. 22, 2007
• Featured Presenter, Boston Bar Association, Kelo v. New London: What It Means for Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 2005
• Featured Presenter, Brookline League of Women Voters, Brookline Homeowners Association, Eminent Domain: Past, Present and Future, Brookline, MA, Nov. 3, 2005
• Panelist, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review & Boston College Environmental Law Society, Symposium, What Palazzolo Means for the Future of Property Rights and for the Future of Local Land Use Regulations, March 26, 2002

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Editorial Board (2001–present)
Murray Inn of Court, Board of Directors (2004–present)
Scribes, American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects, member (2003–present)
Suffolk University Law School—Adjunct Professor, Appellate Practice (2001–present)
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (1988–present)

Bar & Court Admissions

• Admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C.
• U.S. District Court (Mass.); U.S. Court of Appeals (1st Cir.)
• Supreme Court of the United States

Education

Harvard Law School, JD cum laude, 1985

Harvard International Law Journal, Senior Editor
Harvard Law Record, Managing Editor

Princeton University, AB, 1982, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson Award for Senior Thesis Research

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