Brad Bailey

Admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York, in both state and federal courts, Brad has extensive credentials, knowledge, skills, and experience, making him the go-to attorney for those facing serious criminal charges. Brad Bailey's abilities have not gone unnoticed, and he has been once again named as a New England and Massachusetts Super Lawyer for 2017.

• New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office
  Brad started his legal career at the largest and busiest D.A.’s Office in the country, where he was tasked with the prosecution of some of the most serious felonies in New York, including armed robberies, burglaries, attempted murders, felony weapons charges, and felonious charges. Out of the thousands of cases he personally handled during his tenure, 94% of them were ruled a success in his favor.
• Middlesex County (MA) District Attorney’s Office
  Assistant District Attorney in MA's largest county, Brad Bailey was Senior Trial Attorney assigned to Superior Court cases in both Cambridge and Lowell. As Senior Felony Assistant, Brad prosecuted the Office’s most serious cases including murders, rapes, attempted murders, armed robberies, child sexual assaults, and cocaine & heroin trafficking. During this time he took 26 felony cases to trial in less than 2 years, losing only twice, and achieving a 92% conviction rate.
• United States Attorney’s Office – District of Massachusetts (Boston)
  At the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, Brad worked with the Organized Crime Task Force and the Drug Task Force (OCDETF). He prosecuted the notorious Patriaca Crime Family members, street level soldiers and capos, and major crime family underbosses. He also prosecuted local, regional, national, and international drug operations, including Colombian and Dominican cartels, and Syrian and Lebanese traffickers; his work busted, what was at the time, the largest marijuana smuggling ring in New England history. He was assigned to prosecution efforts, overseeing wiretap operations, uncovering drug trafficking rings, and more. By the end of his career there, he has lost zero cases and achieved the highest Office’s rank of “Outstanding Prosecutor”.
• Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office
  From 1995 to 1996, Attorney Bailey accepted the role of Sheriff for the largest county in MA, a position of official duty that few other lawyers have ever had the chance of holding. He oversaw a staff of more than 750 county employees and help with the oversight of thousands of detention facility inmates in Cambridge, Framingham and Billerica. Responsible for courthouse security and the service of civil process throughout Middlesex County, Brad instituted a number of correctional activities for inmates that are widely in use today. He was honored by the Greater Boston Jayceesas as one of 1996’s “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.”
• Private Practice – Criminal Defense
  Before founding Brad Bailey Law, P.C., Brad was a partner at several prominent Boston law firms. Since 1999, he has focused exclusively on defending clients accused of all manner of state and federal crimes ranging from murder, rape, robbery, home invasion, larceny, theft/embezzlement, white collar offenses, fraud, public corruption, narcotics distribution/trafficking, arson, racketeering, child sexual assault, child pornography, felony assault, DUI, and all other types of crimes and charges.

Noteworthy Trials Throughout His Career

• Brad Bailey, Expert in Boston Marathon Bombing Trial
  Attorney Bailey was featured as a legal expert on both CNN and NPR during the full course of the Boston Marathon Bombing Trial. Due to the sensitive nature of the bombing attacks that claimed the lives of 3 and injured 264 more, the media needed a trustworthy source who would act with professionalism and provided unrivaled insight to the criminal defense procedures.

• Defending Clark Rockefeller
  A mysterious individual who went by the name of “Clark Rockefeller” captured natural attention after he had been accused of kidnapping his daughter, murdering an acquaintance, and had his past, which may or may not have been entirely fabricated, exposed to the public before and during his trials. Attorney Bailey did not back down from the complications and difficulty of the case, earning his law firm fame for crafting such well-executed legal strategies.

• Defending Sheila LaBarre
  In 2008, Mr. Bailey defended another high profile murder case in NH v. Sheila Labbarre. Labbarre was accused of interrogating, abusing, murdering, and disposing of the remains of two men with whom she had been romantically involved. In response to double homicide charges, Bailey retained two experienced forensic psychiatrists and pursued an insanity defense before a jury in Rockingham County Superior Court. The investigation and trial were also the subject of several subsequently published books and also profiled on television.

• Timothy Cahill Trial
  Timothy Cahill was in the center of an alleged public corruption trial after airing television ads to promote the State Lottery while the Massachusetts Gubernatorial campaign was ongoing. Attorney Bailey was able to end the case with all criminal charges dismissed with no option of retrial.

• MA Probation Racketeering Trial
  Represented 1st Deputy to commissioner of Probation in federal reacketeering. (RICO) Jury trial against commissioner and two top deputies alleging mail fraud, job rigging, and bribery. Argued for acquittal on sufficiency of evidence grounds and particupated in successful reversal of verdict on same grounds on Appeal.