Maxwell Solet – Lawyers Clearinghouse

Mike Solet retired in 2018 from Mintz, where he had principal tax responsibility in connection with the firm’s role as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and purchaser’s counsel on state and local bond issues. This included serving as bond counsel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MBTA, state student loan issuers, and on numerous school and hospital financings and industrial revenue bond financings. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, he obtained a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service which served as the basis for the tax-exempt financing of the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. Mike also represented many multistate companies in connection with Massachusetts tax disputes during the administrative process as well as in litigation before the Appellate Tax Board, the Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mike served as chair of the Tax Section of the Boston Bar Association as well as its State Tax Committee and Subcommittee on Multistate Taxation and served on its Audit Committee and its Task Force on Multidisciplinary Practice. He also was chair of the Internal Revenue Service’s Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities. Mike served on the steering committee of the annual Bond Attorneys Workshop of the National Association of Bond Lawyers.

Mike graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He served for more than a decade on the board of the Cambridge Health Alliance, a safety net hospital system which operated Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital, and Whidden Memorial Hospital. He was a board member and vice-president of the Cambridge Historical Society and currently serves on the board of the Brattle Film Foundation which operates the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Mike will work with Health Law Advocates (HLA), which provides free legal services to low-income Massachusetts residents denied access to or unable to afford health care. His initial work is part of HLA’s project on mental health and substance use parity.