Calabrese Law Associates, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

The firm works across business law, construction law, real estate law and litigation, and it adds government and regulatory practice, investment law and general counsel services alongside those. It has run this way since 2012, the year it was established in Boston. Massachusetts is its home ground, and the work stays inside the state.

The firm does most of its work in construction, litigation and real estate. Peter G. Calabrese, the managing attorney, chairs all three of those practices, which gives the firm a clear center of gravity. The other lines round out a general business practice for companies and individuals who need a lawyer across more than one type of matter.

On intake, the firm says it rarely takes landlord-tenant cases. That single note tells a prospective client something concrete about the kind of work the firm wants, and it is the sort of plain signal a directory like this one values.

How the team is built

Seven attorneys appear on the firm's roster. Peter G. Calabrese founded the firm and runs it as managing attorney. His own docket covers litigation over commercial and residential real estate, condominium association disputes and construction disputes, and he also handles appellate work along with administrative and regulatory matters.

Daniel Casieri, a senior associate, handles construction litigation in Massachusetts, including consumer issues. He graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2016, which is one of the few dated credentials the site publishes. John A. McDermott, another senior associate, works as a government attorney, and his profile says he is not currently accepting new clients.

The roster also carries four associates: Manuel Guanipa, T. Joseph Roberts, Hannah Santos and Tarek Zatet. Each attorney has a title on the site, and the group reports to Calabrese. A team of seven means most matters can stay in-house without the client having to look elsewhere for a second practice area.

Construction and real estate work

Construction and real estate account for a large share of what the firm handles, and the two areas often overlap on a single property. The detail the site gives on both is more granular than on any other line.

Construction files

The firm takes construction defects, mechanic's lien litigation, and disputes between general contractors and subcontractors. It drafts construction contracts and handles licensing and project closeouts. It also advises on property development, zoning compliance and permitting, which sit on the front end of a build rather than the dispute stage.

Real estate matters

The firm's real estate practice covers property line and boundary disputes, easements and condominium law. It prepares purchase and sale agreements and quitclaim deeds, and it handles foreclosure, HOA matters and closings. When a deal or a boundary goes to court, the same practice carries the real estate litigation.

General process context helps here. A mechanic's lien claim in Massachusetts runs on strict deadlines and recording steps at the registry of deeds, so a construction dispute can turn on paperwork filed early. Boundary and easement questions usually rest on deeds, surveys and the recorded history of a parcel. Work in both areas pairs close document review with litigation when the parties cannot settle on their own.

Business and investment matters

Companies make up a large part of the firm's client base. On the business side, the firm prepares contracts, forms entities such as LLCs and corporations, and drafts partnership agreements. It also handles dissolutions and business litigation when a company relationship breaks down, so it can set up a venture and later argue over it in court.

Investment work covers a narrower set of problems. The firm takes investment fraud claims, life insurance law, private investments, breach of fiduciary duty and recovery of loaned money. In my opinion, that grouping points to a practice comfortable tracing money and pursuing its return through the civil courts.

The general shape of these cases is worth spelling out. A breach of fiduciary duty claim asks a court to find that someone in a position of trust put their own interest first. Recovery of loaned money often starts with the written terms of the loan and whatever security stands behind it. These are civil matters, and they can settle before trial or run all the way through it.

General counsel, regulation and reach

Beyond the litigation lines, the firm offers general counsel services and a government and regulatory practice. General counsel work usually means a company hires an outside firm for steady advice on contracts, compliance and everyday disputes instead of building an in-house legal team. Regulatory matters tend to run through agency rules, licensing requirements and administrative hearings, which is the ground Calabrese names in his own administrative and regulatory work.

The firm has represented clients in both state and federal court, and it works at the pre-litigation, active and post-litigation stages. That span lets the firm advise a client before a dispute is filed and stay on through an appeal, since Calabrese handles appellate litigation himself. As a reviewer, I read that end-to-end coverage as the practical benefit of keeping construction, real estate and business work under one roof.

Boston holds the main office. Burlington has a second office, and the Salem office opens by appointment only. The firm keeps public profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X and YouTube, so a prospective client can check its activity before making contact.

What the record shows

Everything on the site points back to a steady set of practice areas held since 2012. The roster and the practice list read as the work of a firm that keeps its lawyers close to construction, real estate and business disputes, with investment and regulatory work filling in around them. The detail the firm publishes about its construction and real estate matters is the strongest part of that picture.

The public record here is plain: seven named attorneys, three Massachusetts offices in Boston, Burlington and Salem, and a practice that has run since 2012 across business, construction, real estate, litigation, investment and regulatory law.