Attorney, Assisting Clients Throughout Worcester County
Serving Worcester County
Darren Griffis is a top rated criminal defense attorney with a proven track record defending clients facing criminal charges in the Worcester area and throughout Massachusetts. His litigation practice focuses on criminal defense and criminal appeals in both state and federal courts. He also assists college students facing university disciplinary proceedings for alleged student code of conduct violations, including Title IX cases.
Attorney Griffis has developed a reputation for excellence in the courtroom, fighting for clients at trial and during motion hearings challenging the government’s evidence. His criminal defense work spans firearm and weapons charges, crimes of violence, drug possession and distribution, assault and battery, OUI, restraining order violations, and theft offenses, and he has argued appeals before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court.
Before establishing his current practice, Attorney Griffis worked at another Worcester law firm alongside a criminal defense attorney with more than 40 years of experience, served as an Assistant Public Defender with the Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender, and was a senior litigation associate in the Boston office of WilmerHale LLP, focusing on complex white collar matters involving immigration, securities, health care fraud, and export control regulations.
Areas Of Practice
- Criminal defense
- OUI
- Title IX and university discipline
Credentials
- Litigation percentage: 100% of practice devoted to litigation
- Bar admissions: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Education: Boston University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2009; University of Massachusetts Amherst, M.A. English and American Literature, 2006; Roanoke College, B.A., magna cum laude with Honors, 2000
- Professional associations: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Rhode Island Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Worcester County Bar Association
- Past positions: Kneeland Gribouski and Mooradian; Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender; WilmerHale LLP