Prior to his retirement in 2022, Joshua Davis focused his law practice on real estate matters. From 1994 to 2006, he was a partner in Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. in Boston where he headed the Real Estate Housing Practice Group. Before joining Mintz Levin in 1989, he was an associate at Nutter, McClennen & Fish in Boston.
In 2006, Josh resigned his partnership at Mintz Levin and thereafter established Davis Law LLC at which he continued to represent developers, owners, lenders, and investors in permitting, financing, regulatory and transactional undertakings with expertise in issues associated with multi-family housing, senior housing, affordable housing and health care-related real estate development and transactions.
Josh has served as a co-author of the Massachusetts Zoning Manual chapter entitled “Low and Moderate Income Housing: the Anti-Snob Zoning Act, Linkage, Exclusionary Zoning and Incentive Zoning” and has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Association and the American Bar Association. He has served on a variety of boards, committees and task forces concerned with senior housing, affordable housing, and other real estate-related matters in the Commonwealth.
Josh received his B.A. With Distinction in All Subjects from Cornell University in 1978 where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1984.
As an Access to Justice Fellow, Josh will explore and pursue means to change current state law under which municipalities may foreclose on delinquent property tax liens (or sell the right to do so to private investors), resulting in a homeowner’s loss of absolute title to their home, including any profits from its sale following foreclosure.