Areas of Practice:

Environmental
Land Use
Litigation
Municipal

Education:

Boston University,
1996 J.D.
summa cum laude
Editor, Boston University Law Review

University of Texas at Austin, M.A.
1977, Anthropology

Yale University,
1971 B.A.
cum laude

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Kevin D. Batt

Email: kbatt@andersonkreiger.com
Phone: 617-621-6514
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Kevin D. Batt, Counsel

Kevin Batt combines a decade of experience practicing municipal, land use, environmental and construction law with extensive in-house experience as a former conservation manager developing and implementing energy and environmental programs for the City of Austin, Texas and its municipal electric utility.  His experience includes:

• Representing the Towns of Concord, Lexington, Acton, and Dover on a host of municipal, land use, environmental and construction law matters;
• Serving as special counsel to the cities of Cambridge and Attleboro on environmental matters;
• Representing the Town of Barnstable and the Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission on major airport-related litigation;
• Representing a major investor-owned utility applying for approval of its restructuring plan as part of the deregulation of electric utilities;
• Representing public and private-sector clients in cases involving preservation of open space and conservation land, coastal access rights, MEPA review, Title V, and wetlands protection;
• Advising the government of Puerto Rico on construction litigation involving a major mass transit system in San Juan;
• Representing public and private clients on affordable housing matters under Chapter 40B, zoning disputes, Chapter 21E contamination cases, property tax abatements, construction claims, bid protests, and routine contract matters;
• Briefing to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court novel legal issues involving the regulation of beach-access rights under the common law public trust doctrine, Boston's regulation of taxi cab licenses, and same-sex marriage and civil unions;
• Clerked for the Honorable Margaret H. Marshall in the 1997-1998 term of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.