Conboy, Patrick (PJ) J.

Matthew G. Feher is an Associate with Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC and is a member of the firm's Municipal Infrastructure and Government & Legislative Strategies Teams. His practice focuses primarily on representing local and regional governments in the areas of public contracts, public finance, water law, solid waste management, environmental law, real property law, construction law and procurement law.  Mr. Feher also serves as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel in connection with public bond financing transactions.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Feher spent the past decade representing the 351 cities and towns of Massachusetts at both the state and federal levels of government as a senior lobbyist with the Massachusetts Municipal Association. During this time, Mr. Feher was active on legislative issues, executive branch decisions, and state-level court cases involving public works, transportation, public utilities, procurement, real estate development and municipal and regional administration matters.

Among several task forces and commissions on which he served, Mr. Feher was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature's Special Commission on Public Construction Reform that revamped the state's public construction laws as they relate to both horizontal and vertical public construction projects, notably authorizing public awarding authorities to utilize alternative delivery methods. Most recently, Mr. Feher was named a member of Governor Deval Patrick's Federal Stimulus Task Force. Mr. Feher served on the Massachusetts Highway Association Board of Government as legislative counsel and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association.

Mr. Feher earned his J.D. from New England School of Law. During his time at New England School of Law, Mr. Feher was research assistant to Professor Mark Bobrowski, a leading municipal attorney specializing in land use and zoning law. Mr. Feher is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and is a licensed executive and legislative agent in the Commonwealth.