Joseph Hennessey

Joe is a trial lawyer who represents clients in the areas of criminal defense, civil rights cases and catastrophic injury litigation. He has been recognized by Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Boston Magazine as a Rising Star and a Top 100 Defense Attorney by the National Trial Lawyers Organization and has served as a panel member at statewide MCLE seminars. He is a bar advocate for the Worcester Bar Advocates and takes court appointments in District Court, Superior Court, Murder list cases, SDP, SORB and Appeals. 

Joe has tremendous white-collar investigative experience as a former Senior Global Investigator for a Fortune 500 company, where he oversaw internal investigations and worldwide corporate compliance programs. His areas of focus included high-value cybercrime, industrial espionage, and theft of trade secrets along with policy writing. One of his spotlight investigations was a multi-million-dollar platinum theft for a Fortune 500 Company aiding the FBI and Irish Garda.

Before his legal career, Joe was a police officer for 23 years. Joe was trained by the Criminal Justice Training Council, FBI, and Massachusetts State Police in homicide investigations, crime scene and narcotics investigations, and fingerprint recovery and analysis, and served as a certified sexual assault investigator. He attended numerous training classes in OUI enforcement techniques and field sobriety testing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and was a certified breath test operator. Joe was assigned to 3 regional drug task forces during his career working undercover for seven years and assisting in investigations with DEA, ATF, FBI, AGs Office and CPAC units.

Joe is a supervisor for the Worcester Bar Advocates, supervising approximately 125 attorneys in Worcester County. He is also a mentor to many of the court appointed attorneys along with volunteering his time to instruct new attorneys. He is appointed to the CPCS Strategic Planning Committee looking to improve the bar advocate programs throughout the state. 

EDUCATION

• J.D., Massachusetts School of Law, Andover, Massachusetts concentration in Criminal Law
• M.S., Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, Massachusetts
• B.S., M.S., Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, Massachusetts

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Massachusetts, 2007
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 2008