About William Galvin

Attorney William Galvin, a highly esteemed and experienced criminal lawyer, is one of the founding partners of the law firm of Eisenstadt, Krippendorf, and Galvin. He represents clients in the Municipal, District, Superior, and Federal courts throughout Massachusetts. Attorney Galvin routinely wins trials and motions to dismiss on behalf of his clients. He helps clients in all manner of criminal charges from misdemeanors to life felonies. He is known and highly-esteemed in courts throughout Massachusetts as a skilled and experienced criminal defense attorney.

Prior to entering private practice, Attorney Galvin worked for years as a Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney where he prosecuted thousands of criminal offenses. As Superior Court prosecutor in the Boston Gang Unit, Attorney Galvin prosecuted cases involving motor vehicular homicides, armed home invasions, robberies, kidnappings, armed assaults, drug trafficking and school zone violations, firearm violations and shootings. He handled those cases from start to finish, including supervising investigations, conducing Grand Jury investigations and indictments, arguing motions, and trying and winning jury trials. In addition to his duties as a gang unit prosecutor, Attorney Galvin also served as the “on call” prosecutor for the Boston Police Department for the downtown Boston, Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park and Brighton neighborhoods. He regularly went to crime scenes to assist the police, reviewed search warrants, trained officers on criminal law and procedure and attended monthly community meetings. He also served the community by volunteering as an Instructor for the Citizen’s Schools’ after-school mock trial program for students in grades six through eight at the McCormack Middle School.

Attorney William Galvin is known throughout Massachusetts as a talented and experienced criminal lawyer who works hard to make sure that his clients get the best possible outcome in their criminal case.