Real estate and land use attorney Amanda Zuretti focuses her practice on affordable and market rate housing development and sustainable energy projects.
She is Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s (MBA) Public Law Section Council and an active member of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association (MMLA), the Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) and the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition.
Amanda has taught and facilitated programs for the MBA, the MMLA, REBA and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) on practicing with professionalism; legislative drafting; mortgage and tax foreclosure; preserving agricultural and forest land; and municipal management of abandoned and distressed real estate.
Amanda is also a co-editor of the Commercial Real Estate Insight & News blog.
Before Bowditch
Prior to Bowditch, Amanda’s expertise in land title and municipal law led her to a position as underwriting counsel to Connecticut Attorneys Title Insurance Company and then to a MetroWest law firm serving as counsel to several Massachusetts municipalities and public agencies.
Besides work
Amanda is a cyclist, kayaker and hiker who holds several Mass Wildlife outdoor skills certificates.
Affiliations
- Chair, Public Law Section Council, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Mentor, Massachusetts Bar Association’s Tiered Community Mentor Program
- Member, Board of Directors, Hopkinton Center for the Arts
- Member, Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
- Member, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association
- Member, Real Estate Bar Association
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Member, Women’s Bar Association
- Member, Board of Directors, Bethany Hill Place
- Member, MetroWest Leadership Academy Class of 2022
PREVIOUS
- Vice-Chair, Public Law Council, Massachusetts Bar Association
Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2024 and 2025)
Articles + Talks
Articles
- “Battery storage issues ignite conflict,” Worcester Business Journal, 2024
- “Municipal and Miscellaneous Liens,” MCLE’s Massachusetts Real Estate Liens, 2023
Talks
- Power Generation: Current and Future Sources, Massachusetts Energy Summit, Worcester Business Journal, 2024 (Moderator)
- Clean/Renewable Energy Incentives for Business, Massachusetts Energy Summit, Worcester Business Journal, 2023 (Moderator)
- Legislative Drafting, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2020
- Open Meeting Law, Conflict of Interest Law and Public Records Law Primer and Update, City of Framingham, 2020
- Remote Possibility: Virtual Tools for Public Contracts, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, 2020
- Drafting Bylaws and Ordinances, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2020
- Annual Alcohol Licensee Seminar, City of Framingham, 2020
- Seeing Green: Zoning and Marijuana, Social Law Library, 2019
- Payment Disputes: Payment Bonds and Demands for Direct Payment under M.G.L. c. 30, § 39M, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, 2019
Media Mentions
- “Eyeing Electrification, Governments Reroute Post-Berkeley” (Law360)
- “From the Ground Up” (Northeastern Law Magazine)
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Education
- J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
- B.A., Bates College
- Negotiated leases, Power Purchase Agreements and Bill Credit Payment Agreements for solar facilities at an agency overseeing revenue-funded facilities at Massachusetts universities
- Represented developer with successful applications for Affordable Housing Trust Funds grant and for both local and state M.G.L. c. 40V Housing Development Incentive tax credits to create 22 affordable home ownership units in 220-unit mixed tenure housing development and office to residential conversion
- Obtained decision from Town Zoning Board of Appeals that commercial tree processing business was not incident to or in conjunction with farming operations, and therefore not subject to the protections of M.G.L. c. 40A, § 3, first par., or the Town’s Right to Farm Bylaw or Zoning Bylaws
- Advised public bodies on compliance requirements of the Open Meeting Law, M.G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-25 and the Attorney General’s regulations at 940 CMR 29.00, et. seq.
- Responded to complaints filed with the Attorney General’s Division of Open Government against public bodies and advised Records Access Officers as to disclosure of public records [as defined under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66, § 10] and the exemptions from disclosure [under M.G.L. c. 4, § 7, clause Twenty-sixth or other legally applicable privileges] and reporting requirements pertaining to access to particular records in accordance with 950 CMR 32.00
Events + Recordings
Publications
News
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Amanda Zuretti Elected to Board of Directors for Bethany Hill Place
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Amanda Zuretti Quoted In “Eyeing Electrification, Governments Reroute Post-Berkeley” in Law360
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21 Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and Ten Bowditch Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™
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Press Release: Bowditch Honored with Second Empowering Women Award
Commercial Real Estate Insight & News
What Massachusetts Owner-Occupied Residential Property Owners (and Solar Panel Installers) Need to Know Before Contracting for Home Energy Improvements
Courts and Communities Grapple with Housing and Substance Abuse Crises and the Limits of Local Zoning
The Commonwealth Needs Solar Power: After Kearsarge and Tracer Lane, Massachusetts Cities and Towns Consider the Limits of Local Zoning
