Background
Pappalardo, A. John was born on December 15, 1948 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.
Pappalardo, A. John was born on December 15, 1948 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.
Bowdoin College (Bachelor of Arts, 1971). Suffolk University (Juris Doctor, 1974).
Worked at Dwyer & Collora (Boston, Master of Arts) specializing in Criminal and Civil Litigation in Federal and State Courts. Administrative, Communications, Public Contracts. Admitted to the bar, 1974, Massachusetts.
1975, United States.
District Court, District of Massachusetts. 1982, United States. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. 1988, United States. Supreme Court.
Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk University Law School, 1989.
Lecturer in Law, Harvard University Law School, 1993. Assistant District Attorney, Norfolk County, 1975-1978.
Deputy Chief Counsel, Special Commission Concerning State and County Buildings (Ward Commission), 1978-1980. Assistant Attorney General, Public Integrity Unit, Massachusetts, 1981.
Assistant United States.
Attorney, Chief Public Corruption, Massachusetts, 1981-1986. Deputy Attorney General, Chief Criminal Bureau, 1987-1989. Commissioner, State Ethics Commission, 1988-1989.
Associate United States.
Attorney, Chief Criminal Division, 1989-1991. United States. Attorney, Massachusetts, 1992-1993.
Dwyer & Collora represents individual and corporate clients in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation matters before all state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Specialty areas of practice include failed thrift bank litigation, wrongful termination and other employment disputes, securities class action and customer-broker litigation, complex federal criminal trial matters, federal and state grand jury matters, professional conduct, ethics investigations and laws concerning political campaign and finance matters.
Many lawyers in the firm gained substantial trial experience while serving in state and/or federal prosecutorial roles before joining the practice.