About Kristen Bonavita

Criminal Defense Attorney Bonavita is a graduate of Boston College Undergraduate and Suffolk University Law School (Cum Laude).

Prior to establishing her own practice, Attorney Bonavita worked within the Tax and Legal Division of Ernst and Young LLP, and as a Criminal Prosecutor for both the Office of the Attorney General and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Attorney Bonavita is a skilled litigator with extensive courtroom experience. Throughout her career as a Prosecutor, she successfully argued her perspective to either a judge or jury on hundreds of occasions. During her tenure as an Assistant Attorney General, Attorney Bonavita was assigned to the Safe Neighborhood Initiative (SNI) under which she was tasked with handling cases from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Boston. While working for the Office of the Attorney General, Attorney Bonavita was asked to join the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Superior Court Division where she investigated hundreds of cases involving violent crimes, operating under the influence, counterfeiting, fraud, motor vehicle offenses, and trafficking level drug cases. Attorney Bonavita ended her career in the Suffolk County DA’s office in the Superior Court, Narcotics Division.

Criminal Attorney Bonavita maintains an office in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Attorney Bonavita handles criminal cases throughout Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex Counties including, but not limited to the greater Boston area, Salem, Lawrence, Newburyport, Ipswich, Lynn, Beverly, Amesbury, and Peabody.