Mike Giaimo helps developers, businesses, institutions, and other property owners achieve their land use and development-related objectives. His practice involves land use, environmental, and real estate law, with a focus on permitting, regulatory compliance, transactions, and related litigation and administrative proceedings. He also advises a leading national trade association on land use policy matters.

Mr. Giaimo has appeared in front of permitting boards in well over 100 Massachusetts communities. His many years of service on numerous local boards, including as past chair of his local planning board and current chair of the zoning board of appeals, gives Mr. Giaimo an appreciation of the view from the other side of the table and has assisted him in successfully permitting many controversial projects.

Mr. Giaimo has made frequent speaking appearances before professional, business, and civic groups, nationally and locally, on zoning, constitutional issues (including takings, religious land use, and equal protection law), and other land use and environmental law subjects. He is a contributing author of the Massachusetts Zoning Manual, is coauthor of the chapter on zoning from the Massachusetts Basic Practice Manual, and has numerous other publications to his name. He has been qualified by the Massachusetts Superior Court as an expert witness on land use permitting.

Mr. Giaimo earned his B.A., with high honors, from Amherst College, a master's degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School.

EDUCATION

—	J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
—	M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, city planning
—	B.A., magna cum laude, Amherst College, economics and American studies

PROFESSIONAL & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

—	Town of Sherborn (Massachusetts) Zoning Board of Appeals, 2005 to present, chair
—	Boston Bar Association, Land Use and Development Committee, 2005 to present, cochair
—	Urban Land Institute, Sustainable Development Council, 2005 to present
—	Real Estate Bar Association, Land Use Committee, 2004 to present
—	Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 2005 to present