Attorney Profiles

Attorney Liam D. Scully

  • Position: Partner
  • Phone: 617.307.5056
  • Years of Experience: 20
  • Areas of Practice: Criminal Defense
  • Education:
    • Suffolk University Law School
    • University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  • Bar Admissions:
    • Massachusetts
    • New Hampshire
    • United States District Courts of Boston, and New Hampshire
    • First Circuit Court of Appeals

For twenty-five years and counting Attorney Liam Scully has proven to be one of the best criminal defense lawyers in Massachusetts. He earned this reputation the old fashioned way: winning one case at a time. He only practices criminal defense. He has won over one hundred acquittals for clients charged with all ranges of cases, from misdemeanors to major felonies. He has won dismissals in hundreds of other cases. There is hardly a crime that can be charged that he has not won at some point in his career: murder, robbery, rape, fraud, theft, drug trafficking, illegal firearms, assaults and batteries.

Click here for a list of actual cases successfully defended by Attorney Scully.

One of his specialties is defending drunk driving cases and he has won numerous trials for alleged first, second, third and fourth time offenders.

Click here for a survey of OUI/DUI cases recently won by Attorney Scully

Attorney Scully graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, in Boston, MA in 1997. Suffolk Law is known for producing trial lawyers and Attorney Scully stood out in his class. He was invited to write and edit for the school’s prestigious Law Review and published several articles on Criminal Law: Discovery in Selective Prosecution Cases, and Criminal Trade Secret Violations. His success in the classroom back then is the foundation for his success in the courtroom now.

After graduating from Suffolk Law, Attorney Scully was one of a small and hand-picked group of young lawyers who clerked for the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court. As a Law Clerk, he assisted Justices throughout the state as they adjudicated criminal cases. After completing his Clerkship he worked for one year as a Superior Court Trial Attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.  He has spent the balance of his career in private practice as a trial attorney concentrating in criminal defense.


Attorney Claudia Lagos

  • Position: Partner
  • Areas of Practice:
    • Criminal Defense
    • Title IX Defense
  • Education:
    • Boston College Law School
    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Bar Admissions:
    • Massachusetts
    • United States District Courts of Boston
    • First Circuit Court of Appeals

Claudia Lagos is a rising star in Massachusetts criminal defense. She has successfully defended hundreds of clients accused of crimes including, but not limited to, drug transactions, hate crimes, failure to register as a sex offender, sex for fee, operating under the influence, various motor vehicle offenses, larceny, fraud, assault and battery, violations of restraining orders, and embezzlement. Attorney Lagos has consistently delivered the best results for her clients throughout every stage of her representation: from investigations, to clerk’s magistrate hearings, to trials, to probation hearings, to appeals and other post-conviction remedies.

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Prior to joining Scully & Lagos, Attorney Lagos worked at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, where she defended indigent clients accused of crimes in Massachusetts.

Attorney Lagos graduated from Boston College Law School, in Newton, MA, in 2011, during which she worked at the New Hampshire Public Defender and Greater Boston Legal Services, where she specialized in the intersection of immigration and criminal law. At Boston College Law School, Attorney Lagos won the competitive award for Best Oralist due to her excellence in the school’s National Mock Trial Team.

Attorney Lagos graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with honors in 2008.

She is also fluent in Spanish.

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