Christelle J. Jean-Felix, Esq.

Christelle J. Jean-Felix is a Senior Associate Attorney in Housing at Casey Lundregan Burns, P.C. and is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the State of New Hampshire. Her dual practice focuses on matters involving housing and real estate law, in which she has represented and advised clients through all legal aspects of their operations including lease drafting, lease enforcement through various civil actions, fair housing defense, administrative law matters, and management of affordable, multi-family, mixed-income, mixed-use developments, federal and state, federal and state low income housing tax credits housing communities, and aiding with implementing changes in policies for public and leased housing programs.

Attorney Jean-Felix is adept in providing legal services to an array of clients in the housing and real estate fields, including representing both residential individuals and commercial landlords, property managers, hotels, and numerous housing authorities in both states. She serves of counsel for approximately twelve (12) housing authorities across Boston’s North Shore and South Shore, often assisting them with employment law matters, as well. For her housing authority clients, Attorney Jean-Felix facilitates real estate transactions involving different financing sources, drafting and negotiating various agreements for public-private partnership developments, and structuring and negotiating joint ventures and other transactions. She also counsels them in procurement, reporting issues with regulators, and enforcing modernizations projects for their respective housing communities. Additionally, Attorney Jean-Felix avidly represents her clients at all stages of litigation, including jury trials and appeals. She has not only contributed to briefs submitted to the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Supreme Judicial Court, and the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, but has also appeared and argued before the Massachusetts Appeals Court. In the cases which went to the Supreme Judicial Court and the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, she attained outcomes in her clients’ favor after these Courts relied on the briefs she submitted, respectively. Most recently, Attorney Jean-Felix won a significant jury trial in Housing Court, involving mold litigation, in favor of her private landlord clients.

Outside of work, Attorney Jean-Felix’s philanthropic leadership engagements involve serving as a Director-At-Large to the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, where she is responsible for the general management and supervision of the business and affairs of the MBLA, as well as a Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Real Estate Law Steering Committee Fundamentals Section, for whom she organizes unique, immersive educational and networking programs that connect various in-house counsel and private practitioners in the real estate industry. She is also an active member of the Real Estate Bar Association and the Essex County Bar Association. Attorney Jean-Felix was honored as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in March 2025 and has been named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Attorney Jean-Felix is also fluent in French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.

Areas of Practice

• Housing
• Affordable Housing
• Residential & Commercial Real Estate (Housing Authority Representation)

Bar Admissions

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of New Hampshire

Education

• New England Law | Boston — J.D.
• Florida Atlantic University — B.A. (Criminal Justice & Intercultural Communication; Women’s Studies Certificate & minor in Psychology)

Leadership Outside of Work

• Boston Bar Association
  • June 2025 Law Day Steering Committee, Fundraising Member, 2025
  • Real Estate Steering Committee, Fundamentals, Co-Chair, 2024–Present
  • New Lawyer’s Forum, Co-Chair, 2022–2024
  • New Lawyer’s Forum, Public Service Committee, Co-Chair, 2019–2021
• Massachusetts Black Lawyers’ Association
  • Board of Directors, Director-At-Large, 2024–Present
  • Programs and Professional Development Committee, Co-Chair, 2021–Present

• Real Estate Bar Association, Member, 2022–Present
• Essex County Bar Association, Member, 2022–Present
• Trusts & Estates Consortium, Member, 2018–2019
• Alpha Kappa Psi, Co-ed Business Fraternity, Member, 2009–Present

Past Employment Positions

• Turk & Quijano, LLP, Associate Attorney, 2019–2022
• Rackemann, Sawyer, & Brewster, P.C., Associate Attorney, 2018–2019