Practice Areas: Katherine focuses her practice on all aspects of land use, zoning, permitting, and municipal law. The licensing and permitting of cannabis establishments throughout the Commonwealth is a particular focus of her practice. Katherine regularly interfaces with municipal officials, boards and commissions, administrative staff and law enforcement officers on behalf of her clients to address the myriad issues that cannabis businesses present to communities.
Representative Clients: Katherine represents both national and local entities through the cannabis permitting process. Clients include Ascend Mass, LLC, Cypress Tree Management, Garden Remedies, Inc., Heal, Inc., and MedMen. This representation includes assessment of appropriate host municipalities; identification, evaluation, and acquisition of compliant real estate; navigating the local permitting process; and simultaneously working with the Cannabis Control Commission to secure state licensure.
Katherine has also represented a number of individual and business clients relative to their local zoning and permitting needs, including Criterion Development Partners, the Brae Burn Country Club, Happy Munchkins Day School, Village Bank, the Newton Cultural Alliance, the Suzuki School of Newton, the Russian School of Mathematics, the Riverside Children’s Center, Concord Academy, Baza, the Village Café, the Capital Grille, the Olive Garden, and the Biltmore Café.
Education: Katherine earned her B.A. from Brown University in 1997, and graduated from Boston College Law School (J.D., cum laude) in 2002.
Admitted: 2002 Massachusetts
Previous Associations: Upon her graduation from law school, Katherine spent two years clerking for the Justices of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court system. She then practiced domestic relations litigation at Brofsky & Richter in Newton, Massachusetts. She joined Schlesinger and Buchbinder in 2011.
Little Known Facts: Katherine helped to establish the disability awareness curriculum at the Newman Elementary School in Needham.
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