About William M.
William M. Driscoll built a career that bridges two very different worlds: engineering and the law. He began academically in communications and mathematics, earning a B.S. from Worcester State College and an M.S. in discrete mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He later completed a J.D. at New England Law | Boston.
His early professional life was technical. In the 1980s and early 1990s he worked as a programmer and systems analyst, holding roles at Harper Data Processing, Allen Associates, AVCO Everett Research Laboratory, Mercury Computer Systems and The MITRE Corporation. Those jobs included hands-on work as a programmer/operator and later as a lead engineer and UNIX systems manager. In the mid-2000s he shifted his career to law, opening the Law Office of William M. Driscoll and practicing as an appellate lawyer.
Driscoll has handled appeals and post-conviction matters for many years. He served on the Post-Conviction and Appeal Panel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in 2014. He has argued in state and federal forums and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Circuit, the Massachusetts Federal District Court and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That admission profile reflects a practice that spans trial and appellate work and includes federal specialized tribunals.
Alongside private practice, Driscoll has kept active in legal education and professional organizations. He taught legal research and writing as an adjunct professor at New England Law | Boston and has continued ties to the school as an alumni ambassador. He has been involved in the Massachusetts Bar Association on appellate and civil litigation committees and has served in volunteer and judging roles for national competitions through the American Bar Association.
He also maintains credentials in alternative dispute resolution. He is a certified collaborative law practitioner through Massachusetts Collaborative Law Counsel and completed mediation training with Divorce Mediation Training Associates. Those qualifications inform family law and settlement work alongside his appellate practice.
The thread through Driscoll’s various positions is a steady attention to procedure, analysis and argument, whether in code, systems design or courtroom briefs. He practices from the Law Office of William M. Driscoll, handling appeals, post-conviction matters, mediation and related litigation in state and federal courts.
