Beantown's Real Estate Boom Has Firms Jumping

Law firms are cashing in on Boston's robust commercial and development market and adding real estate attorneys to collect the spoils.The building frenzy, coupled with brisk sales of high-rise buildings, is boosting revenue at the city's legal real estate strongholds, including Boston's Goulston & Storrs; Goodwin Procter; and Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo; and national firms DLA Piper and Nixon Peabody.The Boston DLA Piper office started with 33 mostly real estate lawyers from the now-defunct Hill & Barlow in January 2003 and has since expanded to about 60 lawyers, with the majority specializing in real estate. Elliot Surkin, the firm's Boston managing partner, said low office vacancy rates are driving the building surge."We don't go home anymore, nobody has a family; we're very, very busy," Surkin quipped.http://www.wedorealestate.info/monster-worldwide-likely-takeover-target-seeking-alpha-via-yahoo.html