{"id":601,"date":"2013-07-07T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=601"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:53","slug":"massachusetts-court-enjoins-company-from-preparing-and-selling-deeds-because-it-constitutes-the-unauthorized-practice-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2013\/07\/07\/massachusetts-court-enjoins-company-from-preparing-and-selling-deeds-because-it-constitutes-the-unauthorized-practice-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts court enjoins company from preparing and selling deeds because it constitutes the unauthorized practice of law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The superior court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against a company called ANADeeds, Inc. to stop it from preparing and selling deeds and other legal instruments for the conveyance of property in Massachusetts. Real Estate Bar Ass&#8217;n v. ANAdeeds, 2012 Mass. Super. LEXIS 380 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2012). Judge Lauriat explained that &#8220;[i]n Massachusetts, drafting a deed constitutes the practice of law,&#8221; citing\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/weblinks.westlaw.com\/result\/default.aspx?action=Search&amp;cnt=DOC&amp;db=MA%2DORCS%2DWEB&amp;eq=search&amp;fmqv=c&amp;fn=%5Ftop&amp;method=TNC&amp;mt=Westlaw&amp;n=1&amp;origin=Search&amp;query=CO%28SJCF+SJCRES+SJCOPJ+APPF+APPRES%29+%26+DA%282011%29+%26+DN%2CTI%2810744%29&amp;rlt=CLID%5FQRYRLT7743925121077&amp;rltdb=CLID%5FDB648824121077&amp;rlti=1&amp;rp=%2Fsearch%2Fdefault%2Ewl&amp;rs=MACS1%2E0&amp;service=Search&amp;sp=MassOF%2D1001&amp;srch=TRUE&amp;ss=CNT&amp;sskey=CLID%5FSSSA1458124121077&amp;sv=Split&amp;vr=1%2E0\" target=\"_blank\">Real Estate Bar Ass&#8217;n of Massachusetts (REBA) v. Nat&#8217;l Real Estate Info. Servs.,<\/a>\u00a0946 N.E.2d 665 (Mass. 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/mortgages\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mortgages<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superior court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against a company called ANADeeds, Inc. to stop it from preparing and selling deeds and other legal instruments for the conveyance of property in Massachusetts. Real Estate Bar Ass&#8217;n v. ANAdeeds, 2012 Mass. Super. LEXIS 380 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2012). Judge Lauriat explained that &#8220;[i]n Massachusetts, drafting a deed constitutes the practice of law,&#8221; citing\u00a0Real Estate Bar Ass&#8217;n of Massachusetts (REBA) v. Nat&#8217;l Real Estate Info. Servs.,\u00a0946 N.E.2d 665 (Mass. 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages","category-real-estate-transactions"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}