Firm Overview

Massachusetts Land Use and Criminal Law Firm

For nearly 30 years, Attorney James Cipoletta has been providing competent, high quality legal advocacy and support to individuals and business clients across the North Shore and throughout the greater Boston area. The combination of experience, a network of relevant experts in our different practice areas, and a commitment to maintaining a current knowledge and understanding of changes in local, state, and federal laws provides clients of the Law Offices of James J. Cipoletta with the service and representation they need to serve their immediate and future needs and goals.

To speak with a highly regarded, effective Massachusetts lawyer with extensive knowledge and experience in criminal defense and land use issues, contact our firm today.

We represent clients in the following legal practice areas:

• Zoning and land development
• Waterfront and real estate development
• Licensing and permitting
• Internet crimes
• White collar crime and fraud
• Cable, satellite, and music download theft
• Motor vehicle offenses
• Drug offenses
• DUI defense

We have the experience, knowledge, and resources to navigate the labyrinth of challenges often associated with land use and development issues. Our principal attorney, James Cipoletta, has nearly three decades of experience representing clients in all styles of development cases. He served as chair of a municipal zoning board of appeals for more than ten years, and has an insider's working knowledge of the permitting and appeals process.

Attorney Cipoletta began his practice focusing solely in criminal defense. He has built a reputation as a savvy, aggressive defense attorney and is AV®-rated* under Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system for legal ability and ethical standards.**

We provide high quality legal advocacy at all stages of the legal process, including litigation. Attorney Cipoletta is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He is certified by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) as a trial advocacy instructor, formerly served on the faculty of Harvard University, and is currently a faculty member at Suffolk University in Boston.

If you are in need of a skilled defense lawyer to represent you in a matter involving a traffic violation, theft, fraud, DUI, or drug charge, we can help. We can also provide you with the knowledgeable legal guidance you need in your development and land use issues. Contact us today to arrange a confidential consultation and case evaluation with a trusted, experienced attorney at the Revere, Massachusetts, Law Offices of James J. Cipoletta. Our office is located in the Citizens Bank Building, and in order to better and more efficiently serve our many clients, office hours are by appointment only.

*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.

**Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.