Edward M. Bloom
Education

Boston College Law School, LL.B., cum laude

Tufts University, B.S., Electrical Engineering

Bar and Court Admissions

Massachusetts

Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts





















 
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Edward M. Bloom
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617.646.2114embloom@sherin.com  |  vCard  |  Profile PDF


Edward M. Bloom is a partner in the firm's Real Estate Department. With over thirty years of experience, he is widely respected for his knowledge and experience in real estate law. Ed concentrates his practice on the development, sale, leasing, and mortgaging of residential, office, shopping center, industrial, and condominium properties.

After law school, Ed served as Chief Judicial Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court under Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro.


Representative Experience
  • Landlords of retail shopping centers throughout the U.S.
  • Major supermarket chain in negotiating built-to-suit store and ground lease locations in New England
  • Landlords and tenants in office, R&D, manufacturing and warehouse leases
  • Boston-based book publisher with respect to its real estate matters, including lease transactions, for over thirty years
Speaking Engagements and Publications
  • "New Economic Development Act fixes SJC leasing decision." REBA News, September 2012
  •  "SJC foreclosure ruling avoids title disaster," Boston Business Journal, June 29, 2012
  • "Real Estate Industry Sitting on a Volcano," The Real Reporter, March 2, 2012
  • "SJC decision deepens foreclosure morass," Boston Business Journal, November 25, 2011
  • "What Every Real Estate Lawyer Needs to Know About Representations, Warranties, Indemnity Agreements & Insurance: Sophisticated answers to complex questions," speaker, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, May 2010
  • "Liquidated Damages for Commercial Lease Defaults: Can the Cummings Case Be Right?," panelist, 12th Annual Real Estate Law Conference, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, March 2010
  • Lease Drafting in Massachusetts, Editor-in-Chief, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 3rd
  • ed., 2010 (also Editor-in-Chief of 1996, 2001 and 2005 editions)
  • Chapter on construction mortgages, contributing author, Crocker’s Notes on Common Forms, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2010 forthcoming, (also contributor to 1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008 editions)
  • "Surfing the Economic Tsunami: Practice Tips for the Leasing Professional," panelist, Sherin and Lodgen LLP and Cushman & Wakefield Inc. joint seminar, May 2009
  • "Negotiating Commercial Leases in Uncertain Times in Massachusetts," speaker, Lorman Education Services, December 2008
  • "Negotiating Retail Leases," chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, May 2008
  • "Negotiating Office Leases," chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, February 2008
  • "SJC stuns real estate bar with 'Cummings' decision," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, October 1, 2007
  • "Proposed REBA Office Lease Form," speaker, Real Estate Bar Association Fall Meeting, 2007
  • "Strategic Issues in Commercial Leasing," 8th Annual Real Estate Law Conference, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2006
  • "Relocating Easements after M.P.M. Builders v. Dwyer," speaker, Real Estate Bar Association Fall Meeting, 2005
  • "Understanding and Negotiating the Greater Boston Real Estate Board Commercial Lease," lecturer and seminar chairman, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2005
  • "Recent Developments in Real Estate Law that Every Broker Should Know," speaker, Greater Boston Real Estate Board, November 2004
  • "Analyzing the Greater Boston Real Estate Board Commercial Lease Form," Real Estate Bar Association Fall Meeting, 2003
  • "Representing Commercial Landlords and Tenants - Dangerous Lease Issues for the Unwary," speaker, Real Estate Bar Association Spring Meeting, 2003
  • Speaker, 5th Annual Real Estate Law Conference, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2003
  • Yearly update on real estate law, Massachusetts Bar Association Annual Meeting, 1980-2002
  • Chaired and lectured at numerous real estate seminars for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association, The Abstract Club and the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts
Memberships
Blogs
Firm News
LISTEN: Edward M. Bloom speaks on leasing litigation for ABA Real Estate Litigation Sound Advice
Edward M. Bloom quoted in the Boston Globe on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court foreclosure ruling
Edward Bloom quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on foreclosure by entry

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