Steven J. Topazio

Steven Topazio is an experienced criminal defense attorney who founded the Law Offices of Steven J. Topazio. At his law firm, which is located in Boston's Financial District, Mr. Topazio focuses his legal practice on assisting individuals, small businesses and corporations from throughout the Boston metropolitan area and surrounding eastern Massachusetts who have legal needs in the areas of criminal defense and personal injury law. He handles all criminal defense cases such as: assault and battery, domestic violence, restraining orders, drug possession, distribution and/or trafficking cases, firearm possession charges, shoplifting and larceny, petitions to seal criminal records, fraud cases as well as clerk magistrate hearings. 

Clients regularly turn to him for representation in cases involving the following:

• Arraignments
• Assault and battery
• Alcohol violations
• OUI or DUI
• Breaking and Entering
• Criminal domestic violence
• Criminal fraud
• Dangerous Weapons
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Possession with Intent to Distribute
• Drug Possession
• Distribution of a Controlled Substance
• Embezzlement
• Expungement
• False accusations
• Felonies and misdemeanors
• Fraud
• Firearms
• Identity Fraud
• Juvenile delinquency
• Larceny
• Murder
• Probation
• Prostitution
• Rape
• Robbery
• Sealing Records
• Sex offenses
• Shoplifting
• Theft
• Trafficking a Controlled Substance
• warrants
• Animal bites
• Wrongful death
• Slip-and-fall accidents
• Motor vehicle accidents

Mr. Topazio began his legal career in 1985 after earning his law degree from New England Law and his approval to practice law in the state of New Jersey. In 1986, Massachusetts also approved him to practice in its courtrooms, and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit also granted him approval to practice in their courtrooms.

Mr. Topazio's career began in the courtroom. He spent four years as a trial attorney for a large criminal defense firm prior to founding the Law Offices of Steven J. Topazio in 1990. Since the founding of his firm, he has established a reputation as one of New England's leading attorneys by pursuing cost-effective solutions for his clients.

His long record of success and reputation as a dedicated client advocate have resulted in a number of honors and awards. He holds a "Superb" Avvo rating, and he has received an AV-Preeminent* peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, to name only a few.

*AV-Preeminent and BV-Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.