Carl Axelrod

Carl Axelrod, a Retired Partner at Brown Rudnick, served as a transactional real estate and corporate lawyer. He represented clients for over 35 years in their acquisition, development, leasing, general corporate, financing, secured lending and joint venture activities. His clients included Simon Properties Group, Antares Real Estate Developers, Bertucci’s Corporation, Krupp Bros. LLC, Friendly’s Ice Cream Corporation, Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited and CiT Corporation.

At Brown Rudnick, Carl also served on the Management Committee and chaired the Hiring Committee.

Carl served as President of the Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation and is a past Chair of the New England Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). He also chaired ADL’s Civil Rights Committee and Strategic Planning Committee, and served on the ADL National Executive Committee, ADL National Commission, and ADL National Civil Rights Committee for many years. He is also a co-founder of the Brookline Civic Association. He previously served on the Brookline Advisory Committee and as a Brookline Town Meeting Member.

Carl currently serves on the New England Regional Board of the ADL and the American Jewish Committee. He continues to do pro bono legal work for Community Servings, a nonprofit corporation that supplies hot meals to AIDS patients and their families.

Carl received the Honorable David A. Rose Civil Rights Award from the ADL in 2001 and was recognized in the 2013 edition of Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Real Estate Law.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Carl will continue his work with the Anti-Defamation League.