Matthew Lawlor is a member of the firm's Land Use Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on representing developers, landowners, commercial landlords and tenants, and advocacy groups in matters involving multifamily residential development, transit-oriented and mixed-use development, commercial real estate development and leasing, and land use and planning law. His experience includes obtaining permits and land use entitlements for developers of large-scale, mixed-use projects and coordinating complex transactions representing developers and real estate lenders. Mr. Lawlor also regularly advises a national real estate organization on initiatives and land use trends across the country.

Before attending law school, Mr. Lawlor worked for Comsis Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a consulting transportation planner for local and state governments.

Mr. Lawlor received a B.A., cum laude, in modern European history from Amherst College. He earned a master of regional planning from the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he concentrated in land use and transportation. He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School, where he served as a co-managing editor for the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review.

Mr. Lawlor serves as president of the board of directors and as corporate counsel for the Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation, a community-based nonprofit serving the Boston neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Roslindale. Mr. Lawlor also works extensively with the firm's representation of the Congress for the New Urbanism/New England Chapter as that organization's pro bono general counsel. He presently serves as the organization's treasurer.

Mr. Lawlor is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

EDUCATION

—	J.D., Boston College Law School
—	M.R.P., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, regional planning
—	B.A., cum laude, Amherst College, modern European history

PROFESSIONAL & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

—	Boston Bar Association
—	Congress for the New Urbanism (national organization and New England Chapter board treasurer)
—	Massachusetts Bar Association
—	Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation, board president and corporate counsel
—	Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association
—	Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts