Broderick and Bancroft

BRODERICK BANCROFT: Founded in 1981 by Dan Broderick and Dan Bancroft, the firm began as a general law practice, including criminal defense, real estate and civil litigation. By the mid-1980’s, the firm began its concentration on representing owners and managers of subsidized housing, with representative clients throughout New England.

Over the next 30+ years, the firm grew, along with many of its clients, representing thousands of affordable housing units, including federal and state project-based subsidized properties, as well as Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties. The partners and their associates conducted training for clients and outside organizations on fair housing and landlord-tenant issues, and contributed articles to the Assisted Housing Management Insider newsletter.

Representative clients: Greater Boston Management, Inc. Maloney Properties, Inc. (represented since 1981), Rogerson Communities (represented since 1981), Newton Community Development Foundation, The Mackin Group, Barkan Management, Trinity Management, and formerly, State Street Development Management Corporation.

Attorney Dan Bancroft founded Broderick and Bancroft with Dan Broderick in 1981. He has been a trial lawyer since 1975 and holds the highest professional “av” rating with Martindale – Hubbell. A substantial portion of his practice consists of representing owners and managers of subsidized housing in the Massachusetts trial and appellate courts on matters including discrimination, employment, fair housing, summary process and civil litigation related to housing. He represents owners and managers of subsidized housing before state and federal administrative agencies, including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Boston Fair Housing Commission and the civil rights and fair housing offices of HUD. In addition to litigation matters, he drafts non-discriminatory tenant selection and management policies, advises clients on matters pertaining to the disabled applicant and tenant, and responds to reasonable accommodation requests. He regularly conducts fair housing seminars for his clients.

He currently serves on the Access to Justice Housing Court working groups addressing Lawyer for the Day programs and appellate practices. In May 2010 he was appointed as a member of the Housing Court Working Group of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission. Previously, he was a panelist at the Fall 2009 and 2006 MCLE conferences on Residential Landlord Tenant Practice. In April 2008 he was invited to speak on Fair Housing issues at the New York State Annual Housing and Resource Conference. He has participated as a trainer and leader in MassHousing (formerly MHFA) sponsored programs on disabilities and housing for more than 15 years. In 2008, in collaboration with First Justice Jeffrey Winik, he initiated and has since organized the Boston Housing Court Bench-Bar meetings. In 2012, working with the Boston Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project, he established the Lawyer for the Day program for unrepresented landlords in the Boston Housing Court. He is on the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Land Trust, is a member of the Board of Overseers, Rogerson Communities, and is a “Life Fellow” of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. He previously served on the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Hearing Committee (1994 – 2004), Board of Advisors, Newton Human Rights Commission (1996 – 2001), and the City of Boston’s Elderly Housing Task Force (August 1994).

Dan is an avid squash player and a published playwright. He writes feature articles for the York Weekly, York, Maine. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Anne, a Unitarian Universalist Minister serving the Theodore Parker Church of West Roxbury. He and Anne have three adult children, Elizabeth Noble of Newton, MA, Ben Bancroft of Rye, NH, and Lilly Hicks of Boston, MA, and two grandchildren, Maisie and Max Noble.