Neil Lewis Chayet is an American lawyer

Lawyer

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He is widely known for his weekday feature program Looking at the Law (debuting April 1, 1976 on WEEI

WEEI

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Chayet graduated from Tufts University

Tufts University

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 (B.A. 1960) and the Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 (J.D. 1963). He has worked on several high profile cases, including the Boston Strangler

Boston Strangler

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. As president of Chayet Communications Group, Inc., he maintains active legal and consulting practice in the area of health law. Chayet acts as special counsel to several law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C. Additionally, he serves as lecturer on Legal Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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, and as an Adjunct Professor at Tufts. Having been active in Massachusetts law and politics for most of his life, he also served as Vice President of the Boston Republican Committee

Massachusetts Republican Party

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Neil Chayet was married to Susan Chayet; they have three children (Michael, Lisa, and Ely). Now he is married to Martha M. Chayet. After buying the Joseph Story House

Joseph Story House

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 in 2006, they moved from Manchester-by-the-Sea

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts

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 to Salem

Salem, Massachusetts

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Publications include:

• Social and Legal Aspects of LSD Usage. In: LSD, Man & Society (1967), p. 94-126
• Legal Implications of Emergency Care (1969).
• Neil Chayet’s Looking at the law (1981).
• Interview with John Koch, The Boston Globe
  The Boston Globe
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  (1999)

External links

• Looking at the law – audio files via WBZ (AM)
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