About Daniel Daly

A Fearless Criminal Defense Attorney With Unmatched Credentials
When facing a serious criminal charge, there is arguably no decision more important to make than who to hire as your defense attorney. It is absolutely vital that you hire a lawyer who is smart, savvy, and has serious courtroom experience. Attorney Daniel (“Dan”) P. Daly has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts since 2004 and during the course of his legal career he has held multiple positions in the criminal law field that give him an inside knowledge of the criminal justice system that is second to none. Along with that one-of-a-kind experience, Dan is a battled-tested trial attorney having served as lead trial counsel in over one hundred (100) trials and in hundreds of evidentiary hearings and motions.

Raised in the West Roxbury section of Boston, Dan attended high school at one of Boston’s 3 prestigious exam schools – Boston Latin Academy. After graduating in ’97, Dan attended Stonehill College where he completed an internship his junior year at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. After graduation, Dan returned to Washington, D.C. to attend law school at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law on a partial academic scholarship. While at Catholic Law, Dan was one of a few select group of students selected following a rigorous class-wide advocacy competition to compete against various law schools across the country as part of the school’s National Trial Team. In his 3rd year of law school – while still a member of the National Trial Team – Dan was also selected to participate in the prestigious “D.C. Law Students in Court” criminal clinical defense clinic which focused on providing indigent criminal defense to those persons accused of crimes in the D.C. Superior Court. This experience launched Dan’s career as a compassionate and non-judgmental advocate in providing person’s facing very difficult times in their lives with the best legal defense possible. It was also during this clinical experience that Dan tasted his first trial victory – a defense verdict against a federal prosecutor at the United States Attorney’s Office.

After law school, Dan returned back to Massachusetts in ’04 and began his first legal job as an Assistant District Attorney in Boston. As an ADA, he practiced in the South Boston and Roxbury Divisions of the Boston Municipal Court (“BMC”) prosecuting a variety of misdemeanor and felony offenses. Dan held this position until he accepted an appointment as a Boston Police Officer in October of ’05. While in the Boston Police Academy, Dan was elected by his fellow recruits as class 43-05’s Vice-President and was assigned to Area A-1 (Downtown Boston, the North End, and Charlestown) upon graduation where he served as a rapid-response and community service patrol unit. As a patrol officer, Dan was certified by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) in the administration of standardized field sobriety testing. As a practicing attorney, Dan is one of the very few lawyers in Massachusetts to hold this distinction.