Paul Kominers

Paul is an associate in Anderson & Kreiger’s Public Law, Airports, and Litigation groups. His areas of focus include:

• Public Law Litigation: Paul represents government clients in a wide range of disputes. For example, he defended the Massachusetts Gaming Commission from multiple lawsuits challenging the Commission’s licensing process, and successfully defended an Open Meeting Law lawsuit against the town of Acton.
• Public Law Counseling: Paul advises municipal and other government clients on matters involving governance, procurement, land use, constitutional law, and other subjects. He has helped clients respond to numerous Open Meeting Law complaints and public records requests.
• Airports: Paul represents airports in civil litigation and administrative proceedings. He has defended the Commonwealth Ports Authority against a complaint seeking expedited administrative proceedings before DOT, and helped Massport win a preliminary injunction against Turo’s operations at Logan Airport.
• Commercial Litigation: Paul has worked on business and construction disputes large and small – from recovering consulting fees and promissory notes, to multi-million-dollar insurance coverage disputes.

Paul served as a law clerk to the Honorable James R. Milkey of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to the Honorable Michael M. Baylson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Paul has held a number of volunteer leadership roles at MIT.  Currently, he serves on the Annual Giving Board.  He previously served a five-year term on the MIT Corporation from 2013 to 2018.

• Litigation
• Public Law
• Airports

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2018, cum laude

President and Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Journal on Legislation

MIT, S.B., 2012

Admissions

Massachusetts

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Clerkship

Honorable James R. Milkey, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Honorable Michael M. Baylson, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

MIT Alumni Association Margaret L.A. MacVicar ’65, ScD ’67 Award, 2018

Rappaport Fellows Program in Law and Public Policy, 2016, Fellow

Karl Taylor Compton Prize, 2012

• Appeals Court Law Clerk Society, Board Member, 2021-2023
• MIT
  • MIT Alumni Association, Annual Giving Board, Member, 2021-2024
  • East Campus Renovation Advisory Committee, Member, 2021-2024
  • MIT Club of Boston, Clerk and Assistant Vice President for Finance, 2021-present
  • Friends of the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, Founding Member, 2020-present
  • MIT Alumni Association, Corporation Nominating Committee, Member, 2017-2020
  • MIT Corporation, Member, 2013-2018

• Defended the Commonwealth Ports Authority from a complaint asking the Department of Transportation to initiate expedited (“rocket docket”) administrative proceedings.
• Successfully defended the Massachusetts Gaming Commission against Mohegan Sun’s claim that Open Meeting Law violations invalidated the Commission’s award of a casino license to Wynn Resorts.
• Assisted Massport in winning a preliminary injunction, later upheld on appeal, against Turo’s operations at Logan Airport.
• Successfully defended the town of Acton against an Open Meeting Law lawsuit.
• Assisted client towns with responding to numerous Open Meeting Law complaints.

Publications

• Trouble Brewing in Marblehead, PUBLIC LAW, April 19, 2022
• Continued Pandemic-Era Flexibility for Town Meetings, PUBLIC LAW, February 15, 2022
• Alexander Hamilton, Public Records Law Share Top Billing at the First Circuit, PUBLIC LAW, November 12, 2021
• Paul Kominers & Mina S. Makarious, The Relationship Between the Federal Government and Local Government, in Massachusetts Municipal Law (2d ed. Supp. 2022)
• Paul Kominers, Mina S. Makarious & Tasha Marshall, The Relationship Between the Federal Government and Local Government, in Massachusetts Municipal Law (James B. Lampke & Robert W. Ritchie, eds., 2d ed. Supp. 2020)
• Mina Makarious & Paul Kominers, Spaulding v. Town of Natick School Committee: Allowing Free Speech while Accomplishing Municipal Work, 63 Boston Bar Journal (2019)
• Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, et al., Open Data Privacy (Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2017-07)

Speaking Engagements

• Moderator, MIT Alumni Leadership Conference 2020, "Pathways to Leadership", September 22, 2020.
• Panelist, MIT Alumni Leadership Conference 2018, "MIT10: Building Young Alumni Coalitions", September 22, 2018.