Senior Attorney
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 617.654.1703
Practice Areas: Environmental and Land Use, Elections, Constitutional Law, Litigation
Attorney Braun joined the firm in 2019. She has an active litigation practice and assists the firm’s clients in all facets of environmental and land use, elections, and constitutional law. She has secured representative victories before judges of the Massachusetts Land Court and Superior Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court, and the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals on a wide range of matters. She also has significant experience representing municipalities at election recounts and in litigation concerning election practices.
Prior to joining the firm, Attorney Braun clerked for the Hon. Justice Barbara A. Lenk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her experience also includes a judicial internship with the Hon. Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, as well as a legal internship with the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
Attorney Braun was selected as a 2023 and 2024 Rising Star by Super Lawyers© and as a member of the 2023-2024 Leadership Academy for the Massachusetts Bar Association. She currently serves on the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Public Law Council, and previously held positions with the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association’s New Lawyers Committee and Boston Bar Association’s Energy and Environmental Law Committee. Attorney Braun also serves as a Conservation Commissioner for the City of Chelsea. She was named as a Top Woman of Law leadership scholar by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
- Oak Ridge Lincoln Planning Board (Land Use, Appellate) and Oak Ridge v. Lincoln Conservation Commission (Conservation, Appellate): Successfully defended the Planning Board’s issuance of an open space and recreational trail easement in both the Land Court and the Appeals Court, and successfully defended the Conservation Commission’s determinations regarding wetlands protection delineations in both the Superior Court and Appeals Court.
- Jerry L. Ryan City of Salem (Elections): After successfully second-chairing a nine-day bench trial, the Superior Court found in favor of the City on all counts of the Plaintiff’s Complaint regarding the conduct of the local election, affirming the integrity of the election held in the City of Salem under the Commonwealth’s election laws. The Plaintiff’s appeal was dismissed by the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
- LambertCity of Haverhill (Firearms): Successfully defended the Police Chief’s decision to deny a LEOSA card to carry firearms across state lines to a retired police officer with a history of domestic violence on the ground that the officer did not retire “in good standing” entitling him to a LEOSA card.
- Northborough Marlborough (General Municipal): Successfully defended against a $23 million complaint for damages for use of a wastewater plant, including legal briefing which convinced a special master to reverse his prior decision on interest owed, ultimately saving the client over $1 million in compound interest payments.
- Teleen Dennis Conservation Commission (Environmental): The Superior Court entered judgment in favor of the Commission, upholding its denial of a permit for constructing a structure under the local Wetlands Protection Bylaw due to its adverse impact on shellfish and fish habitats.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Barbara A. Lenk (2018-2019)
Committee for Public Counsel Services
Student Attorney, Public Defender Division (2018)
Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, Boston, MA
Legal Intern, Environmental Protection Division (2017)
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Judicial Intern to the Hon. Allison D. Burroughs (2017)
Center for International Environmental Law
Legal Intern (2016)
- Named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine (2023, 2024)
- Awarded the “Top Women of Law” Leadership Scholarship by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2017)
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association
- Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association
- Conservation Commission for the City of Chelsea
- Massachusetts Bar
- U.S. District Court (Mass.)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States Supreme Court
Northeastern University School of Law
Juris Doctor, 2018
Senior Staff Editor, Law Review
McGill University
Bachelor of Arts, 2014
- Massachusetts City and Town Clerks’ Association, Open Meeting Law and Public Records Law (June 2024)
- Suffolk Law School and the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, Practicing as a Municipal Attorney (April 2024)
- City and Town Clerks’ Association of the North Shore, First Amendment Audits (February 2023)
- Massachusetts City and Town Clerks’ Association, Elections and the Public Records Law (October 2022)
- Boston Bar Association, Wetlands Permitting 101 (September 2022)