Lawyers Close to the Work.
Pacini Law is built around direct lawyer ownership. Clients work with the lawyers responsible for strategy, judgment, and execution in business counsel and trial matters involving growth companies, founders, executives, boards, investors, and sponsor-backed businesses.
Attorneys
Steven J. Pacini represents growth companies, founders, executives, boards, investors, and sponsor-backed businesses in complex business disputes, arbitration, trial, and related business-counsel matters. His practice focuses on transaction-related disputes, governance and investor conflicts, executive and employment matters, insurance and indemnity, and mission-critical commercial relationships.
Before founding Pacini Law, Steven practiced for seventeen years at leading international firms, including fourteen years at Latham & Watkins, where he served as Counsel in the Litigation & Trial Department. Working closely with private equity, emerging-company, and deal teams, he handled disputes arising from transactions, investments, governance decisions, executive movement, financing pressure, and critical business relationships.
Steven is often engaged before a dispute fully surfaces to assess risk, leverage, business consequences, and escalation options. When litigation is required, he takes first-chair responsibility through targeted discovery, motion practice, evidentiary hearings, arbitration, and trial.
Steven founded Pacini Law to give growth companies direct access to sophisticated, hands-on legal judgment without the layers and cost pressures that can make large-firm litigation impractical.
Steven is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and represents clients in business disputes and arbitrations nationwide.
Steven J. Pacini
Founder
Samuel Barrows
Senior Counsel
Samuel Barrows represents growth companies, investors, executives, and businesses in complex commercial disputes, arbitration, litigation, and related counseling. His practice includes transaction-driven claims, mergers, financings, indemnity obligations, insurance recovery, contract interpretation, and disputes involving aggressive litigation tactics.
Sam has experience across all phases of litigation and arbitration, including evidentiary hearings, dispositive briefing, oral argument, discovery strategy, and case development. He has particular depth in New York and Delaware law, insurance-related disputes, indemnity rights, and the drafting, negotiation, and enforcement of complex business contracts.
Before joining Pacini Law, Sam practiced in Latham & Watkins’ Litigation & Trial Department, handling complex commercial and insurance-related disputes. His work at Pacini Law bridges the Business Counsel and Trial Counsel practices, helping clients understand how contract language, risk allocation, insurance, indemnity, and enforcement strategy interact before and after disputes arise.
Sam has published on abusive litigation tactics and efforts to weaponize legal process, experience that informs his approach to disputes involving asymmetrical pressure.
At Pacini Law, Sam plays a central role in case strategy and execution, working with founders, executives, general counsel, and business teams to frame claims, manage risk, test leverage, and drive matters toward resolution or decisive litigation.
Sam earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School, where he served as an Executive Senior Editor of the Boston College Law Review. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
Co-Counsel
Tova Goldring
Co-Counsel | Corporate & General Counsel
Founder, TG Law, LLC
Tova Goldring advises founders and growth companies, including private-equity-backed companies, on the legal work required to build, operate, and protect a business. Her practice includes entity formation and governance, operating agreements, commercial contracts, employment matters, regulatory compliance, commercial leasing, and outside general counsel support.
Tova brings more than 15 years of experience across large-firm practice, in-house legal leadership, and private practice. She began her legal career at Goodwin LLP, where she focused on tax, corporate transactions, and complex restructurings. She later served as General Counsel of Match Education, leading the organization’s legal function across commercial contracts, employment, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance.
That in-house experience informs Tova’s approach: legal advice must be practical, timely, and grounded in what the business is actually trying to accomplish.
TG Law, LLC serves as co-counsel with Pacini Law to provide clients integrated business and trial counsel. Tova brings particular depth in corporate, governance, employment, commercial, healthcare, fintech, education, and regulated-business matters, complementing Pacini Law’s commercial, insurance, dispute, arbitration, and trial capabilities.
Tova earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University. Before law school, she worked in the legal department at The Kraft Group. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York and maintains an independent practice through TG Law, LLC.
Independent practice: TG Law, LLC
TG Law, LLC
Operations & Law Clerks
Adelene Jeneid
Head of Operations & Client Experience
Adelene Jeneid leads operations and client experience at Pacini Law, ensuring that engagements run with clarity, responsiveness, and discipline from intake through resolution.
She works closely with the firm’s attorneys to manage client onboarding, matter coordination, and operational execution, allowing legal teams to remain focused on strategy while clients experience consistency, predictability, and accountability at every stage. Adelene plays a central role in maintaining the firm’s service standards as matters scale in complexity and intensity.
Before joining Pacini Law, Adelene worked in high-performance legal environments, including at Latham & Watkins, where she supported complex, fast-moving matters. She also brings experience connected to international and diplomatic institutions, including work associated with the United Nations, which informs her structured, detail-oriented approach to operational execution.
Adelene is a graduate of Boston University. Her work reflects a broader interest in institutional systems and cross-border engagement, including ongoing involvement with nonprofit initiatives in Lebanon and leadership within the World Economic Forum Global Shapers community.
Alborz Seyyedi is a Law Clerk at Pacini Law, where he supports the firm’s business counsel and trial matters involving complex commercial disputes, executive conflicts, high-stakes business litigation, and growth-company legal issues.
Alborz is a J.D. candidate at Suffolk University Law School, with an anticipated graduation in 2028. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 2022, he spent three years as a Legal Assistant at Latham & Watkins, where he supported attorneys ranging from first- through fifth-year associates on high-stakes corporate and litigation matters. His experience included coordinating across large case teams, managing litigation and transactional workflows, preparing filings and case materials, and supporting matters operating under demanding deadlines and significant client exposure.
Alborz is fluent in French and Farsi and has been involved in pro bono interpretation and translation work in Dari and French. His pro bono experience has included assisting with a successful application for a ghetto pension on behalf of a relative of a Holocaust survivor, as well as helping Afghan asylum applicants prepare for and navigate the United States asylum process.
Law Clerk
Alborz Seyyedi
Panos Nikolos is a Law Clerk at Pacini Law, where he supports the firm’s attorneys on business counsel and trial matters and brings a practical, real-world perspective to legal work.
Before law school, Panos spent several years in the restaurant industry, where he managed multiple family-owned restaurants. That experience sharpened his ability to solve problems under pressure, coordinate people and operations, and deliver results in fast-paced environments, strengths he now applies to his legal work. Panos is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is pursuing his J.D. at Suffolk University Law School, where he serves on the staff of the Suffolk University Law Review.
Law Clerk