Practice Focus

Land use, energy and telecommunications, litigation

Experience

Her practice focuses on energy and land use law, in addition to litigation. She regularly assists clients before local planning and zoning boards throughout the state, and represents both regulated and unregulated energy interests before various tribunals, including the Public Utilities Commission. Rachel also represents clients in litigation matters in a wide range of areas, including contract, administrative appeals, land-use, partition, negligence and constitutional issues.

Rachel has an extensive background and experience with energy, land use, and environmental issues. Prior to law school she worked as an advocate for an environmental nonprofit organization in Washington D.C. She holds a master's degree in environmental management, with a focus on energy law and policy, and worked for the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School and for the Yale Center on Environmental Policy at Yale University.

Prior to joining Orr & Reno, Rachel clerked for United States District Judge John A. Woodcook, Jr. in Maine. During law school, Rachel completed a full time externship with First Circuit Judge Jeffrey R. Howard in Concord. She also worked for the natural resources and litigation divisions of the Maine Attorney General's Office and at a New Hampshire law firm. At Vermont Law School, she was a member of the Vermont Law Review.

Practice Areas

• Energy and Environmental
• Governmental Relations
• Land Use
• Litigation
• Real Estate
• Telecommunications

Honors and Distinctions

• Leadership Concord Class of 2010
• Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellow, 2006
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association Leadership Academy, 2010-2011
• Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2010-2011

Community Involvement

• Board Member, J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund
• Member, Leadership Concord Steering Committee
• Member, Business Division Committee, Merrimack County United Way
• Member, Dartmouth College Second College Grant Advisory Committee
• Board Member, Conservation New Hampshire

Bar Admissions

Rachel is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Maine, and the United States District Court for the District of Maine. She is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and the Maine State Bar Association

Education

Vermont Law School, J.D., summa cum laude, 2007; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, M.E.M., 2007; Dartmouth College, A.B., cum laude, 2001

Publications

Michael H. Dworkin and Rachel Aslin Goldwasser, Ensuring Consideration of the Public Interest in the Governance and Accountability of Regional Transmission Organizations, 28 Energy L.J. 543 (2007)