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We are excited to announce that Samantha Rothberg has joined Klavens Law Group, P.C. as senior corporate counsel. 

Sam’s practice focuses on companies and investors in the cleantech, climate tech and social enterprise sectors. She assists companies at each phase of their life cycle – from early-stage startups to established private companies – in a diverse array of areas, including startup formation, outside general counsel advising, corporate governance, equity compensation, venture financings, debt transactions, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Sam also supports the purchase and sale and financing of clean energy projects. In addition, she advises nonprofit organizations on formation, corporate governance and transactional matters.

Between graduating from Harvard Law School in 2015 and joining Klavens Law Group this summer, Sam practiced corporate law at WilmerHale.

Sam was named to Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers list in 2021 and 2022 in the area of corporate law.

Learn more about Sam by reading her bio.

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The Massachusetts climate act contains provisions relating to net metering that could have a significant impact on solar development.
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In what appears to be a first, and following a concerted effort by Klavens Law Group, the MA Attorney General has rejected elements of a municipal solar bylaw aimed at blocking commercial solar energy projects. In the past, the AG’s office has routinely approved local solar bylaws – often with a stern warning that under paragraph nine of MGL c. 40A, § 3 the municipality can’t apply the bylaw so as to prohibit or unreasonably regulate solar facilities except where necessary to protect public health, safety or welfare. In a March 21, 2022 decision, however, the MA Attorney General flatly rejected the Town of Wareham’s effort to amend its zoning bylaw to place harsh restrictions on the siting of large-scale ground mount solar energy facilities.

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KLG is proud to sponsor the fifth annual Women Shaping the Agenda event on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, organized by New England Women in Energy and Environment (NEWIEE). Featuring a keynote address by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and a panel of senior policy makers from around New England, this year’s event will focus on “Regional Collaboration vs. State Sovereignty on Energy and the Environment: Where the New England States Converge and Diverge.”   /continue reading

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Drawing on its significant experience with solar project development, KLG recently submitted comments on the Massachusetts SMART program to point out some of the potential practical difficulties with the project segmentation rule proposed in the regulation issued by the Department of Energy Resources in June 2017.  KLG believes the rule would create unnecessary barriers to solar project development on contiguous parcels of land.   /continue reading

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Please join us on October 20, 2016 at 5:00 pm at the Smith College Conference Center in Northampton, MA for the Slow Money Pioneer Valley Entrepreneur Showcase which aims to spotlight local farm and food businesses. Klavens Law Group is excited to sponsor this event for the second straight year. KLG's Sarah Matthews is a member of Slow Money Pioneer Valley and on the planning committee for this exciting event.   /continue reading

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Klavens Law Group is part of a network of lawyers providing pro bono legal services to qualifying farmers, food producers and food-related entrepreneurs as part of the Conservation Law Foundation's Legal Food Hub.  The inaugural Fall 2016 issue of To Market magazine features an article on the Legal Food Hub, quoting KLG's Jonathan Klavens.  If you are a food entrepreneur or farmer in search of legal help, the Legal Food Hub might be just what you are looking for.    /continue reading

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On September 30, 2016 at 12 pm, the Boston Bar Association's Environmental Section will host a brown bag discussion on the topic "The Commonwealth's Pipelines Issue, ENGIE & CLF v. DPU and Where We Go From Here."  Speakers are Melissa G. Liazos of National Grid USA, David Ismay of Conservation Law Foundation, Joe Dalton of ENGIE North America, and Seth Schofield of the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General.

Facilitated by KLG's Courtney Feeley Karp, co-chair of the Energy Committee of the Environmental Section, speakers will discuss the legal issues raised in the case - ENGIE Gas & LNG LLC v. Department of Public Utilities, 475 Mass. 191 (2016) - as well as strategies to address the Commonwealth's energy needs and climate change goals.

Find event details here.