Matthew E. Scafidi

Scafidi Juliano, LLP is a boutique real estate law firm located in Massachusetts.  The firm currently has four offices: Wellesley, Woburn, Westwood and Waltham.

The firm's primary focus is real estate law but our attorneys have experience in a number of areas.  Below is a list of all practice areas at the current time:

• Business/corporate law: focusing on small to mid-sized businesses and start-ups
• Condominium law: representing developers; unit owners; condominium associations
• Licensing
• Real estate – Commercial: financing, leasing, and zoning/permitting/development
• Real estate – Management (aka Landlord/Tenant Law): representing both landlords (including property management companies) and tenants in both residential and commercials properties
• Real estate – Residential: purchases, refinancing, sales, lender representation, short sales, foreclosures, deeds in lieu of foreclosures, and zoning/permitting/development
• Wills, basic estate planning, and probate work
• Zoning, real estate development, and permitting law
• Plus general civil litigation directly or indirectly related to the above practice areas

Matthew Scafidi, a native of Sudbury, Massachusetts, currently lives just outside of Boston with his wife and three children. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Providence College, and also studied at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Prior to law school, Mr. Scafidi was the Latin American Business Development Manager for International Electronics, Inc, of Canton, Massachusetts, and spent four years in New York working for the PGA Tour. Thereafter Mr. Scafidi matriculated at New England Law | Boston, where he received his Juris Doctor degree. While at New England, Mr. Scafidi founded the Real Property Probate and Trust Organization.

Prior to partnering with Attorney Juliano, Mr. Scafidi ran his own law practice and also served as Of Counsel to Perry, Krumsiek & Jack.  Prior to that, he was an Associate with two other Boston private law firms, Downing & Flynn and Shaevel & Krems.  In the past, Mr. Scafidi’s practice areas have included civil litigation, real estate management, real estate development, and commercial leasing. Currently, his practice focuses on commercial and residential real estate, condominium law, business transactions, land use/zoning, wills/estate planning, and civil litigation (including, among other things, business litigation, real estate litigation, and landlord-tenant matters). Mr. Scafidi has represented a very wide range of clients including individuals, small condominium associations and national property management companies.

Mr. Scafidi is very active in civic affairs.  He was recently asked to be one of the first “Connectors” for Boston World Partnerships, an initiative to raise global awareness of Boston as one of the world’s foremost centers of intellectual capital and innovation.  He spent two years as the Chair of the Housing Subcommittee for Mayor Menino’s Young Bostonian Advisory Council, he has served on the Board of Directors for the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay (where he was Co-Chair of the Licensing & Building Use Committee), and he has donated his time to students at the Snowden International High School in Boston as part of the Princeton Mentoring Program.