Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 71, § 37E (2026)

Legal counsel for collective bargaining

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Section 37E. The school committee of a city or town may employ legal counsel in connection with collective bargaining with employee organizations for school employees, and may expend money therefor from the funds appropriated by said city or town for school purposes provided, however, that no such money shall be expended in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars without the prior approval of the mayor, the city manager in a city having Plan D or Plan E form of government, or the board of selectmen. Said legal counsel shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine A of chapter thirty or the provisions of chapter thirty-one.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1979–2019 · leading case: Bd. of Pub. Works v. Bd. of Selectmen, 387 N.E.2d 146 (Mass. 1979).

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Bd. of Pub. Works v. Bd. of Selectmen, 387 N.E.2d 146 (Mass. 1979). “And in an opposing affidavit town counsel stated that he had been unaware of the board’s asserted practice of bringing suit; *629 that in submitting the release form he had not considered the department’s authority to settle claims; and that on November 3, 1977, he ruled that…”

Varsity Wireless Investors, LLC v. Town of Hamilton, 370 F. Supp. 3d 292 (D.D.C. 2019). “M.G.L. c.71, § 37E ; id. § 16(j). However, the Planning Board Defendants do not point to, and this court does not find, any provision within the Massachusetts General Laws conferring such authority on municipal planning boards, or their members in their official capacities.”

Superintendent of Schs. v. Mayor of Leominster, 434 N.E.2d 1230 (Mass. 1982). “71, §§ 37E & 37F (school committee authorized to hire separate legal counsel for collective bargaining and general school purposes); G.”

Sch. Comm. v. City of Chicopee, 412 Mass. 593 (Mass. 1992). “” See G. L. c. 71, § 37E (1990 ed.). The fact that the above two provisions — one retaining an expenditure limit for the retention of legal counsel by a school committee for a specified purpose unless executive approval is granted, and the other eliminating such a limit when…”

Boston City Council v. Menino, 12 Mass. L. Rptr. 194 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2000). “, G.L.c. 71, §37E (school committees); G.L.”

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