Area of Practice: Municipal and Election Law
Attorney Lauren Goldberg has over 20 years of public law experience advising clients on general municipal law issues, and particularly with respect to municipal governance, municipal finance and administrative law, including the Public Records Law, Conflict of Interest Law, and Open Meeting Law. Attorney Goldberg assists numerous client towns in connection with all aspects of Town Meeting, including assisting with preparation of warrant articles, attending pre-meetings with Town officials, advising as to parliamentary procedure, and representing Towns at Town Meetings. She has extensive experience reviewing, drafting, and revising municipal charters, ordinances and bylaws, and assisting municipal clients in interpreting and implementing the same. Attorney Goldberg also advises municipalities concerning the Home Rule Procedures Act and the Home Rule Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, drafts special legislation, and assists clients in the legislative process, including testifying on behalf of clients before joint committees of the General Court. Her practice includes regularly drafting by-laws and ordinances and advocating on behalf of clients before the Attorney General with regard to approval of by-laws. Attorney Goldberg was named by Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly as one of 2018’s 50 Top Women in Law.
Attorney Goldberg, a founding member of the firm’s Government Information and Access Group, has worked with the firm’s clients to implement the revised Open Meeting Law, and, most recently, the new Public Records Law. Attorney Goldberg regularly lectures on these topic to the Massachusetts City and Town Clerks Associations, participated in a panel with the Massachusetts Municipal Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, and organized and participated in nearly two dozen training sessions for clients. Attorney Goldberg will sit on a Public Records Law panel at the Massachusetts Municipal Association Annual Meeting in January, 2017.
Attorney Goldberg also provides the firm’s client municipalities and other municipalities as special counsel advice and written opinions and litigates on behalf of municipalities relative to recalls of elected officials, election recounts, and other elections questions, as well as conducts and supports City and Town Clerks at election recounts
Attorney Goldberg joined the firm after serving as Legal Counsel to the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Elections Division. In this capacity, she drafted amendments to the state election laws and regulations and assisted city and town clerks in implementing state election laws.
