Joe Hanley is a Partner and Director at the firm, specializing in land use, zoning, licensing and administrative law. His practice includes over 25 years of experience in the State and Municipal regulatory process for large to mid-scale commercial real estate ventures in mixed-use, residential, commercial, hospitality, biotechnology/life sciences and institutional sectors.

Joe has extensive experience in the City of Boston’s Article 80 Large Project Review process, Planned Development Area adoptions by its Zoning Commission and Board of Appeal cases for Special Permits and Variances under the Boston Zoning Code. He has also successfully entitled large-scale Master Plan Developments and secured Special Permits and Variances for client developments throughout Greater Boston.

Joe is a former Board President and current Emeritus Board member of Heading Home, Inc., a leading “housing first” non-profit service provider in Greater Boston, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Back Bay Association, one of Boston’s oldest and most established business groups. He was an original member of the New England Steering Committee for the Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama, an Obama Victory Trustee, National Finance Committee member and At-Large Delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Prior to law school, Joe worked on the staff of then US Senator William S. Cohen, and he is a member of Board of Advisors of the Cohen

Institute for Leadership & Public Service at the University of Maine. Joe graduated Cum Laude with his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston and received his B.A. from the University of Maine.