Bailey, Michael J

Brad Bailey concentrates in criminal litigation for Denner Pellegrino, LLP, Counselors At Law. Brad was previously a Partner at a mid-sized Boston firm, where he concentrated in white collar and high-end criminal defense work and securities regulation. Brad's practice includes the defense of cases and matters before Federal District Court, the Superior Court, the Supreme Judicial Court and Court of Appeals, District and Juvenile Courts, the SEC, NASD, MSD and NYSE.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Brad formerly worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, a Homicide, Drug and Sex crimes Prosecutor for the Middlesex County, District Attorney's Office, and as a Felony Prosecutor for the Manhattan (New York) District Attorney's Office. He also served as High Sheriff of Middlesex County, and was the statewide Anti-Drug Czar for Massachusetts under Governors Weld and Celucci.

Brad was named one of Boston Magazine's "Super Lawyers" for 2004, 2006 and 2007 and a "New England Super Lawyer" for 2007, and was honored by the Greater Boston Jaycees in 1994 as one of Massachusetts' "Ten Outstanding Young Leaders." He has been profiled by Dan Rather in CBS Television's "Eye On America" and was rated "Outstanding Prosecutor" while working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston. Amongst Brad's more notable cases are N.H. v. Sheila LaBarre, a double murder insanity trial in which he served as co-lead counsel, United States v. David LaFleur, a police corruption case in which he and founding partner Jeffrey Denner obtained not guilty verdicts; United States v. Michael Vaccaro, where, as lead counsel, he obtained another jury acquittal on a case in which the client was facing a mandatory minimum thirty year prison sentence; Commonwealth v. Martin Urban, an appellate case where he successfully argued for, and won, a new trial for his client at both the Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court; and Commonwealth v. John Doe, in which he won a not guilty verdict in a case of a twenty-one year-old Division I lacrosse player accused of rape. He also represented clients in United States v. Angela Buckborough, the state's largest private embezzlement prosecution; United States v. James Dorman, a Staples Executive accused of fraud/theft; United States v. Justin Ficken, a financial advisor accused of participation in large scale market-timing related fraud; and United States v. Carlos Pizarro, a Boston police corruption case. Together with founding partner Jeffrey Denner, he also currently represents a young man accused of killing his grandmother in Commonwealth v. James Clark.

Brad's view on the practice of law is best stated when he says, "As a state and federal prosecutor I was trained to think inside the box; to routinely place things within the context of office policy and legal precedent. Now, as an experienced criminal defense attorney handling difficult and sophisticated cases, I am motivated and driven to think outside the box and consistently try to take my cases places where no defense attorney has thought of going."

Brad is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, New York, the United States District Court of Massachusetts, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. He has also been admitted to practice law pro hac vice in NH, CT, NJ, MD, WI, AZ, and CA. He has served as Faculty/Chair of MCLE training workshops and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He has served on the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence and is also a member of the Harvard College and Philips Exeter Academy Alumni Associations, a member of the Advisor's Committee at the Cotting School, and a Corporator for both the Winchester Savings Bank and Winchester Hospital.