Position

Serving as Of Counsel to the firm, Mr. Golden is currently concentrating his practice in environmental law and general litigation.   Having represented cities and towns on a variety of environmental issues, he has also served as legal counsel to individuals, nonprofit organizations and environmental technology companies.

Mr. Golden has thirty years of professional experience as a federal official, a member of federal and state advisory commissions, an officer of various non-governmental organizations, a city solicitor and a state legislator.

As City Solicitor for the City of Quincy, Mr. Golden filed the lawsuit that initiated the court ordered clean up of Boston Harbor.   During his six years as a Massachusetts State Senator, he co-authored or sponsored environmental legislation relating to clean air, clean water, open space, public utilities, mass-transit and toxic and hazardous waste regulation.   Mr. Golden also served as statewide chair of the successful 1986 Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Cleanup referendum campaign and as a member of two federal environmental advisory commissions.

Mr. Golden graduated from Yale University in 1970 (BA), earned his law degree from Boston University in 1974 (JD) and was awarded an MPA from Harvard University in 1981.   He has received various honors including a Silver Medal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the David B. Stone Award which he shares with fellow recipients, including Walter Cronkite, Jacques Cousteau and Senator John Kerry.

Current Employment Position(s):

Of Counsel

Areas of Practice

Environmental Law
General Litigation

Bar Admissions

Massachusetts, 1974

Education

Yale University, 1971, B.A.

Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974
J.D.

Harvard University, 1981, MPA

Birth Information:

Boston, Mass., 1948

 

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