Shareholder and President
E-mail: lgoldberg@k-plaw.com
Phone: 617.654.1759
Practice Areas: General Municipal, Litigation
Attorney Lauren Goldberg has over 25 years of public law experience advising clients on general municipal law issues, particularly with respect to municipal governance, municipal finance and administrative law. Serving as the firm’s point person for election-related issues, Attorney Goldberg represents both client and special counsel municipalities in high stakes recounts and election related litigation, and frequently advises city and town clerks, boards of registrars and election commissioners on implementation of state election law. Her practice also includes assisting clients with all aspects of Town Meeting, including preparation of warrant articles and motions and advising as to parliamentary procedure. Attorney Goldberg regularly advises municipalities concerning the Home Rule Procedures Act and the Home Rule Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, drafts charters, by-laws and ordinances, and advocates on behalf of clients before state administrative agencies.
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
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Top Women of Law – 2024 Circle of Excellence
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – 2026, 2025, 2024 Top 20 Managing Attorneys in Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association Programming Committee 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly – 2018 Top 50 Women in Law
- Represented Marshfield Board of Registrars in Recount Petition Challenge, June, 2026
- Represented Wellfleet Board of Registrars in Select Board Recount, June, 2026
- Represented City of Brockton in City Councilor at Large and Ward Councilor Recount (6 races) and related litigation in Superior Court (favorable finding), December, 2025-January, 2026
- Represented the Rockport Board of Registrars in dozens of voter registration challenges, August, 2024, and in related litigation (favorable finding currently on appeal to the Massachusetts Appeals Court)
- Represented the City of Revere as Special Counsel in the November 2023 Mayoral recount.
- Represented the City of Medford as Special Counsel in the November 2023 City Council recount.
- Represented the City of Leominster in the November 2023 City Council recount.
- Represented the Town of Truro in dozens of voter registrations challenges, November 2023.
- Represented the client Towns of Hamilton, Georgetown and Topsfield, and served as special counsel for the Town of Ipswich, in a recount for the November 2022 Essex County State Representative race.
- Represented the City of Framingham as Special Counsel in the November 2021 City Council recount.
- Represented City of Boston as Special Counsel in recount for Councillor-at-Large with nearly 70,000 ballots in Fall of 2019.
- Represented City of Salem as Special Counsel in 2019 District Councillor recount and in the prolonged litigation that followed. The matter of Jerry L. Ryan v. City of Salem, et al., Essex Superior Court, Civil Action No. 1977CV01675 was decided from the bench after nine days of trial with the judge finding in favor of the City on all Counts, which decision was later upheld by the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
- Drafted special legislation for various client communities on a range of matters, from, for example, the use of Community Preservation Act funds in Weston for an existing affordable housing project and issuance of a an all alcoholic beverages licenses for use at the historic Josiah Smith Tavern, to inclusion on the ballot in the Towns of Webster and Watertown of offices to fill untimely vacancies, creation of special funds to address unanticipated significant revenues, as well as legislation ratifying, validating and confirming the Town of Webster’s amendment of its charter, and ratification of numerous elections and town meetings in various client communities held without sufficient legal notice.
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, Massachusetts
Legal Counsel, Elections Division, August 1997 to April 2000
Staff Attorney, Public Records Division, August 1996 to August 1997
- Massachusetts Bar
- United States Court of Appeals
- United States District Court
Boston University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1995
Boston University Law Review; G. Joseph Tauro Scholar
Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, 1991
- “The Community Preservation Act”, Massachusetts Municipal Auditors & Accountants (MMAAA) Annual Conference, June 2026
- Election Day Operations and Election Security & De-escalation for Election Officials, Massachusetts Town Clerks Association (MTCA) Conference (multi-day speaker), September 2025
- “Municipal Finance: It’s all about the money”, Massachusetts Councils on Aging, October 2025
- “Open Meeting Law, Overview and Best Practices” Massachusetts Municipal Auditors & Accountants (MMAAA) Association, June 2025
- “Navigating Public Records and Open Meeting Laws”, Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), March 2025
- “Town Meeting: Everything You Want to Know But Didn’t Want to Ask”, Massachusetts Town Clerks Association (MTCA) Conference, February 2025
- “So-called First Amendment Audits”, Massachusetts Town Clerk’s Association (MTCA) Annual Conference, June 2024
- “Elections Overview”, Massachusetts Town and City Clerk Association (MTCA) Annual Conference, June 2024
- “So-called First Amendment Audits”, Massachusetts Collectors & Treasurers Association (MCTA) Annual Conference, June 2024
- “Elections”, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, May 2024
- “So-called First Amendment Audits”, City of Cambridge, April 2024
- “Roberts Rules and Open Meeting Law”, Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers, (MAAO), January 2024
- “Campaign Finance Info – Dos and Don’ts for Town Officials and Staff”, Small Town Administrators (STAM) Fall Conference, October 2023
- Panelist, “Charters: Adoption and Amendment”, Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association Annual Fall Meeting, October 2023
- “Overview of Current Trends Open Meeting and Public Records Law”, Massachusetts Municipal Association, June 2023
- ‘Top 5 Municipal Law Questions”, Massachusetts Mayors Association Conference, February 2023
- “Virtual, Hybrid, and In-Person Public Meetings”, Massachusetts Select Board Association, January 28, 2022
- Author, “Municipal Election Administration and Campaign Finance,” Massachusetts Municipal Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2002, republished most recently in 2023
- Author, “Insurance Coverage for Municipalities,” Massachusetts Municipal Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2002, republished most recently in 2023
- Co-Editor, Massachusetts Election Administration, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2000, republished most recently in 2023
- Author, “Voter Registration,” Massachusetts Election Administration, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2000, , republished most recently in 2023
- Author, “Nominations, Caucuses and Primaries,” Massachusetts Election Administration, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 200, republished most recently in 2023
- Author, “Election Day Administration,” Massachusetts Election Administration, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2000
- Author, “Related Federal Laws,” Massachusetts Election Administration, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, first published in 2000, republished most recently in 2023