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Joshua M. Bowman joins MCLE Board of Trustees

Joshua M. Bowman, partner in the firm’s Real Estate and Corporate departments and chair of its Hospitality Practice Group, has joined the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Board of Trustees, where he will work to support MCLE’s mission to develop the best methods, resources, and products to meet the educational needs of the legal profession.

“It’s an honor to join this esteemed group of attorneys in the Massachusetts legal community,” Josh said. “I look forward to collaborating with my fellow trustees to continue improving MCLE’s processes and programs to convey the core elements of professional practice.”

Josh has substantial experience dealing with complicated issues related to commercial real estate ownership, development, finance, joint venture arrangements, acquisitions and sales, leasing, land use, licensing, management and franchise agreements, construction agreements, and food and beverage agreements. In his hospitality practice, Josh has a particular concentration in representing owners and operators of restaurants and hotels.

He also frequently moderates panels at conferences and commercial real estate industry events, and has led continuing legal education seminars for MCLE, as well as The Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA), and served as an advisor to the Boston College Law School Community Economic Development Clinic.

MCLE is the Massachusetts legal community’s premier provider of hands-on educational programs and reference materials. It seeks to keep raising the caliber of lawyers’ professional and ethical service by providing comprehensive and practical continuing legal education of the highest quality to the broadest possible audience. In fulfilling this mission, MCLE presents more than 250 programs annually; publishes more than 160 practice manuals, available as ebooks as well as in print; and offers an online subscription product with unlimited access to all of its webcast programs and its entire book collection.