Colette Moynihan
Attorney, Moynihan Law Office
I defend drivers. It's the only kind of case I take, which means I know the hearing rooms, the clerks and the paperwork well.
I grew up in Dorchester and learned to drive on the Southeast Expressway, which may explain my patience with traffic. After law school I worked as an assistant district attorney, mostly in district court, where drunk-driving and license cases fill the morning list.
I opened this office in 2016 to sit on the other side of those cases. I keep it small so that every client deals with me, from the first email to the last hearing.
Cases I take
- Drunk-driving charges
- License suspension hearings
- Reckless driving
- Commercial license tickets
- Drivers under 21
Where Colette is admitted, and where she studied
Bar admissions
Massachusetts
2010
New Hampshire
2012
Courts
Massachusetts trial courts
District, Municipal and Superior
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
2011
Education
J.D., Suffolk University Law School
2010
B.A., University of Massachusetts Boston
2006
Languages
English
French
Conversational
Memberships
Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Why only driving cases
A driving charge looks small from the outside: a stop, a test, a ticket. For the person holding it, it's the commute, the job, the insurance bill and sometimes the family's only car.
Doing one kind of work lets me do it carefully. I know which records to ask for, which deadlines matter most, and how a hearing officer reads a file. That's the whole of the practice.