Attorney

Laurance has over 25 years of experience working with real estate professionals and homeowners, and regularly represents clients before the City of Newton permit granting authorities such as the City Council (formerly known as Board of Aldermen), the Newton Zoning Board of Appeals, Newton Historical Commission, and other City of Newton committees. Laurance also frequently represents lenders, developers, buyers, and sellers in commercial and residential real estate transactions and closings, as well as representing landlords and tenants in commercial real estate leasing transactions.

Laurance has successfully obtained special permits from the Newton City Council and variances from the Newton Zoning Board of Appeals for various development and home-improvement projects. Laurance’s clients and projects range from homeowners with small renovations to large corporations developing multiple residential and commercial units. Laurance also works with non-profit educational and religious institutions on Dover Amendment projects in the City of Newton.

Laurance has been named “Top-Rated Attorney” by Super Lawyers – a rating service of lawyers (superlawyers.com) - from 2015 to 2024 and previously named as a "Rising Star" as published in the Boston Magazine from 2009 through 2012 and in 2014. Laurance is a member of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts and a member of the Advisory Board for the Newton Boys and Girls Club.

Laurance earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and later earned his Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees from Suffolk University Law School and Suffolk University Sawyer School of Management, respectively. Laurance is fluent in conversational Cantonese (Chinese).