Boston College Law School
885 Centre Street
Newton, MA 02459
Email: rosemary.daly@bc.edu
Advocacy Programs
Rosemary Daly is the Director of Advocacy Programs and also teaches an upper level appellate advocacy course for members of the school’s five national moot court teams. In addition, she serves as the coach of the National First Amendment Moot Court Team as well as the National Negotiation and Client Counseling Teams.
She has extensive experience as an appellate advocate having served both as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services Private Counsel Division, and as a state prosecutor. She is the former Chief of Training and Ethics for the Suffolk District Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts, and former Chief of that office’s Appellate Division where she oversaw the day to operations of the state’s largest criminal appellate division, as well as handled her own case load. She also served as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in both the trial and appeals divisions where she was also the Director of Police Training. For her service in that office, she was awarded the District Attorney Droney Award for Outstanding Dedication and Excellence. She has been a member of the faculty of the National College of District Attorneys in Columbia, South Carolina, teaching ethics, the basic training course offered new assistant district attorneys, as well as the new faculty development course. For over twenty-five years she was a member of the Harvard Summer School faculty where she taught legal writing.
Among her professional and community activities, she has lectured for the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and has served on the Boston Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Steering Committee, the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association’s Criminal Rules Working Group, and as the district attorney’s representative on the Trial Court of the Commonwealth’s Rules Revision Committee. A proud “Double Eagle,” Daly is a board member of the 51 Club of Cape Cod.