Joseph M. Mahaney has over 33 years of litigation experience in criminal and civil cases in both Federal and State Court. Attorney Mahaney specializes in personal injury, civil rights, police brutality, related civil litigation and criminal defense. Attorney Mahaney spent seventeen years as a partner in the firm McLaughlin, Richards & Mahaney, LLP, and served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
Proven Courtroom Results
Attorney Mahaney has extensive trial experience in both criminal and civil jury trials in Massachusetts Superior Court, District Court and United States District Court. He has successfully argued before the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
Attorney Mahaney's court room cross-examination of an arresting police officer in a DUI trial is featured in the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Trying OUI Cases in Massachusetts. In this trial Attorney Mahaney meticulously cross-examined this police officer, which earned a quick acquittal for his client. His style and technique is used by MCLE to teach other lawyers how to handle and try DUI cases in Massachusetts.
Attorney Mahaney has represented numerous Plaintiffs in lawsuits against police departments throughout the State in the United States District Court alleging violations of their Federal Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C. §1983. He has represented and fought for prison inmates in a Federal Civil Rights Class Action lawsuit for extreme abuse suffered at the hands of correctional officers.
Whether trafficking cocaine or severe personal injury, Attorney Mahaney has the trial experience in both civil and criminal matters, is excellent and experienced at using, deposing and cross examining experts cases in many fields of expertise and is the right choice to handle your matter.
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Attorney Mahaney earned his Juris Doctorate from New England School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, United States Federal Bar, First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Workers Compensation
- Criminal Defense
- DUI/DWI
- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
- Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Civil Rights
- Police Brutality
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1986
- U.S. Federal Courts, 1987
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States of America
Education
- New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
- J.D.
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Past Employment Positions
- Firm McLaughlin, Richards & Mahaney, LLP, Partner