The Law Office of Matthew W. Peterson is a criminal defense firm in Boston, MA, with a second office in Salem. Matthew W. Peterson and his trial team bring more than 15 years of combined experience to felony and misdemeanor cases in state and federal court.
Firearms work sets the practice apart. The office handles License to Carry applications, license denial appeals, and restoration of gun rights after a conviction, alongside drug, assault, and sex offense charges.
Recent wins include a new trial in a Lowell shooting case and a not-guilty verdict on an OUI charge at a bench trial in Cambridge District Court. The firm also covers clerk magistrate hearings, restraining orders, and RMV hearings.
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Stephen Neyman has defended people accused of crimes across Massachusetts for over 38 years. Before moving to the state in 1990, he served as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County, prosecuting cases ranging from drug offenses to murder.
That background shapes how he reads a prosecution file. Neyman has taken more than 400 cases to trial and argued roughly 50 appeals in state and federal court, so a matter can move from arraignment through appellate review without changing hands.
The Tremont Street office covers assault and battery, drug trafficking, sex offenses, and clerk's hearings, with a second location in North Andover. This Boston criminal defense attorney takes client calls around the clock.
Few practices are built around undoing wrongful convictions. Rosemary Curran Scapicchio's is. Her work freeing Sean Ellis after decades in prison became the Netflix series Trial 4.
Attorney Scapicchio and associate Jillise McDonough won reversal of Julio Baez's first-degree murder conviction at the SJC in 2024, with findings of not guilty entered on all charges. She has also secured acquittals in a double homicide case and a Bristol County Superior Court murder trial.
Her Union Wharf office sits at the serious end of criminal defense in Boston, taking homicide, firearms, and drug conspiracy charges, post-conviction appeals, and Title IX matters for university students.
Former prosecutors staff the Yannetti Criminal Defense Law Firm. David Yannetti started as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County in 1989, tried hundreds of cases, and reached senior prosecutor before opening his own practice in 1999.
He has served as lead counsel in 12 murder cases and has appeared on the New England Super Lawyers list every year since 2007. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, CNN, and Fox News call on him for commentary. The team works from Boston, Salem, and Dedham and offers free phone consultations.
Five decades of courtroom work stand behind Brad Bailey Law. Bailey prosecuted in the Manhattan and Middlesex County DA's offices, then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney where he never lost a federal trial and earned the office's Outstanding Prosecutor ranking.
Educated at Harvard and UVA School of Law, he has handled more than 100 superior court and federal trials. The School Street firm takes homicide, RICO, healthcare fraud, and securities cases, and its associate attorneys hold Super Lawyers and Rising Stars honors of their own.
Immigration status and criminal charges collide constantly, and Toland Law works both sides of that problem. The Oliver Street practice defends homicide, drug, sex offense, and operating under the influence charges while handling asylum, green card, and removal cases.
Managing attorney Paul J. Toland has practiced in Massachusetts since 2012 and is joined by Juan C. Congote and Abrafi Osei-Kofi. Staff speak Spanish and Portuguese, and consultations cost nothing.
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Simons Law Office takes complex state and federal matters, with results that include acquittals on aggravated rape, carrying a loaded firearm, and assault with a dangerous weapon.
Joseph B. Simons leads a five-attorney team covering sex offenses, theft and larceny, violent crimes, and the collateral consequences that outlast a sentence. The firm keeps offices in Boston and Salem and answers calls at any hour.
An Excellence in the Law award from the Massachusetts Bar Association and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly went to William J. Barabino in 2010, one of twenty given statewide that year.
A former U.S. Army officer and paratrooper, he is admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court and the First Circuit. His Medford office, in the old Lawrence Light Guard Armory, handles OUI, juvenile offenses, gun charges, and Encore casino cases.
Patrick J. Murphy defends motor vehicle offenses, drug crimes, assault and battery, and abuse-related charges from an office near North Station. Student cases and pretrial diversion petitions are a regular part of the docket.
He also files warrant-removal and CORI-sealing motions. Murphy appears in courts across Suffolk, Middlesex, Essex, Bristol, Barnstable, Hampden, Hampshire, and Dukes Counties, and the office serves Spanish speakers.
Joe Serpa has practiced criminal law exclusively since 1995, and much of his best work ends a case before it formally exists. The office has won hundreds of complaint denials at clerk magistrate hearings, leaving no CORI entry behind. Licensed professionals, students, and visa holders make up much of the caseload. Quincy office as well.
Ex-prosecutors staff the Coughlin Law Group, which puts more than 15 years of experience behind DUI, assault, sex offense, and federal charge defense. Attorney Chris Coughlin answers his own phone and handles cases personally. The office sits near TD Garden.
Steven J. Topazio has run a private practice on School Street for over 30 years. Professionals, executives, and high-profile defendants make up much of his caseload, which runs from domestic violence and weapons charges to white-collar matters. He charges flat fees rather than hourly rates.
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Peter V. Bellotti founded this Charlestown practice in 1989, and it now reports results such as $7.98 million for a workplace injury and $3.1 million in a wrongful death claim. Criminal work sits alongside personal injury, family law, and civil litigation. Cambridge and Quincy offices round out the coverage.
For over 50 years, Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein has represented individuals rather than institutions. Acquittals in first-degree homicide trials sit beside a nearly $11 million race discrimination verdict against the City of Boston and a $7.6 million retaliation verdict against the MBTA.
The firm also handles Title IX and student rights matters, employment disputes, and appeals in state and federal courts.
Michelle L. Hubbard counts more than 640 dismissed charges, and the tally keeps climbing. Her Boylston Street office defends violent crime, sex offense, drug, and operating under the influence cases. Clients get her direct cell number, and a Newburyport office serves the North Shore.
Rachel M. Self pairs criminal work with immigration law from downtown Boston, which matters when a conviction puts someone's status at risk. Attorney Self appears regularly as a legal analyst on Fox News and CNN and holds a perfect Avvo rating.