Anthony Buxton, Esq.'78
Franklin Pierce Law Center Board of Trustees
Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLC
Augusta, ME
Anthony W. Buxton serves as chair of the Energy and Utilities Practice
Group of Preti Flaherty, Portland, ME, where his practice focuses on
energy project development, complex commercial energy transactions, and
consumer energy representation. Prior to joining Preti Flaherty in 1980, Buxton served as law clerk to the Honorable
Hugh H. Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in
Boston, MA.
He co–founded the Energy Law Institute in Concord, NH, the nation's
first renewable energy think tank, following law school. The Institute
served the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of the Navy,
the National Conference of State Legislatures and others in developing
state and federal policies to encourage renewable energy. He recently
served as chair of ConnectME, a Maine gubernatorial task force to
expand wireless services in the state and previously served as vice
chair of the Commission on Maine's Future. He has been listed in
Woodward/Whites' The Best Lawyers in America since 1988.
