{"id":578,"date":"2013-07-07T11:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=578"},"modified":"2013-07-07T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T15:19:48","slug":"massachusetts-court-enjoins-company-from-preparing-and-selling-deeds-because-it-constitutes-in-the-unauthorized-practice-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2013\/07\/07\/massachusetts-court-enjoins-company-from-preparing-and-selling-deeds-because-it-constitutes-in-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":"<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 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> 946 N.E.2d 665 (Mass. 2011).<\/p>\n","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1564,18736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages","category-real-estate-transactions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-9k","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}