Neil Chayet

Chayet graduated from Tufts University (B.A. 1960) and the Harvard Law School (J.D. 1963).

Chayet worked on several high-profile cases, including the Boston Strangler. As president of Chayet Communications Group, Inc., he maintained an active legal and consulting practice in the area of health law. He acted as special counsel to several law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., and lectured on Legal Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,{{cite web |url=http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp?task=showperson&id=FVQ2YGdJPDI=&a=hms&r=1&kw= |title=Harvard Medical School - White Pages |accessdate=2010-05-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719210734/http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp?task=showperson&id=FVQ2YGdJPDI=&a=hms&r=1&kw= |archivedate=2011-07-19 }} and as an adjunct professor at Tufts, where he also served on the Board of Trustees from 1971 to 1981.{{cite web|url=http://now.tufts.edu/articles/former-trustee-neil-chayet-a60-dies|title=Former Trustee Neil Chayet, A60, Dies|work=TuftsNow|date=22 August 2017|accessdate=27 August 2017}}

Having been active in Massachusetts law and politics for most of his life, he also served as Vice President of the Boston Republican Committee.{{cite web |url=http://www.wcbs880.com/Neil-Chayet/145800 |title= New York News & Talk Radio - WCBS-AM | WCBS Newsradio 880|website=www.wcbs880.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410060728/http://www.wcbs880.com/Neil-Chayet/145800 |archive-date=April 10, 2010}} In this capacity he worked to clear the way for Mitt Romney's 2002 run for Governor.{{Cite news |title=Massachusetts chief won't step aside |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/898943/Massachusetts-chief-wont-step-aside.html?pg=all |agency=Associated Press | newspaper=The Deseret News |date=March 1, 2002}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Neil Chayet was married to Susan Chayet; they had three children (Michael,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/25/style/weddings-julie-min-and-michael-chayet.html|title = WEDDINGS; Julie Min and Michael Chayet|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 25 April 1999}} Lisa, and Ely). He later married Martha M. Chayet. After buying the Joseph Story House in 2006, they moved from Manchester-by-the-Sea to Salem.http://www.salemnews.com/lifestyle/x1150913291/A-Restoration-Story {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Upon his retirement in June 2017, Chayet announced he would undergo treatment for an aggressive cancer. He died on Friday, August 11, 2017, aged 78.[http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/12/neil-chayet-looking-at-the-law-death/ "Longtime WBZ Personality Neil Chayet Dies At 78", CBS Boston.]{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/business/media/neil-chayet-dead-radio-host-of-looking-at-the-law.html|title = Neil Chayet, Host of 'Looking at the Law' on Radio, Dies at 78|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 15 August 2017|last1 = Sandomir|first1 = Richard}}

• Social and Legal Aspects of LSD Usage. In: [https://www.scribd.com/doc/13257904/LSD-Man-Society LSD, Man & Society] (1967), p. 94-126
• Legal Implications of Emergency Care (1969). {{LCCN|68054561}}
• Neil Chayet’s Looking at the law (1981). {{LCCN|81001024}}
• [http://cache.boston.com/globe/magazine/1999/10-10/interview.shtml Interview] with John Koch, The Boston Globe (1999)

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• [http://boston.cbslocal.com/show/looking-at-the-law/ Looking at the law] – audio files via WBZ (AM)

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