Michael DelSignore | Marlborough Criminal Defense Lawye

Attorney Michael DelSignore is a Massachusetts OUI and Criminal Defense Lawyer with over 20 years of experience. Attorney DelSignore has been recognized as one of the top OUI Lawyers in Massachusetts by SuperLawyers Magazine, has received an award from the National College of DUI Defense for his work on drunk driving defense in Massachusetts and has published two books on OUI Defense.

He helps individuals charged with criminal offense make the best decision possible in their case. In addition to being one of the leading OUI Lawyers, his skills as a trial lawyer allow him to achieve great results for clients charged with other criminal offenses, including motor vehicle crimes, domestic assault and battery, sex crimes and other felony and misdemeanor charges. Attorney DelSignore has been quoted in the media on both issues relating to OUI Defense in Massachusetts and other areas of criminal defense. Attorney DelSignore loves his job and enjoys going to court everyday to stand up for you and to try to make your life better. He has dedicated his life to being the best trial lawyer possible for you to help you when you need him most, when facing an OUI or other criminal charge in Massachusetts.

In addition to having a heavy schedule of DUI trials, Attorney DelSignore actively attempts to educate the public and other lawyers regarding Massachusetts drunk driving laws.

I grew up in a small Italian neighborhood in Cranston, Rhode Island called Knightsville. My relatives lived close to me, surrounded by family. I lived there through high school; then went to Law School at UConn Law before moving to Massachusetts in my early 20s. I would spend the rest of my life living in various parts of Massachusetts. But it was my early childhood that I think shaped much of my character and who I became both as a person and a lawyer.

One of the characteristics all good lawyers must have, is that they most love to learn and care about people. The law is a unique job because it blends many different skills. A good lawyer must be personal, social, but at the same time intellectual, as many legal arguments depend on an interoperation of case law.

I learned a lot from my father who grew up in the same community that I was raised in. He lived in the home that would become our home from his childhood. His father was originally from Italy and he was greatly influenced by his Uncle who would show him how to fix things and build things. It was a skill that would carry my father through his entire life as he has spent it doing plumbing, construction and anything having to do with fix things.

I would go to work with my father and that was where the idea of a lawyer fist entered my mind. Plumbing is a dirty job; you are in peoples basements, it can be cold in the winter, or extremely hot in the summer. You are always breaking your back as he would put it, carrying in heavy boulders and plumbing equipment. Now, everything is much smaller in size, but at the time, boilers and water heaters were very heavy.

My father is the teaching type, to this day and would try to prepare us for the adult world very soon. Even at a young age, he would be talking to me about what I wanted to do for work. So I thought about it from an early age and at the time thought I knew about what it was like to be a lawyer. I started getting involved in debate and mock trials in high school and enjoyed those activities. In college, I would work for a lawyer and planned to go to law school from the start.

Working for a local lawyer, confirmed my suspicion that the law was for me. What I enjoyed about it was that it combined the personal interaction that I liked from working with my father and thought the years in retail. My first job other than working for my father was at JC Penny; I worked in the catalog department doing the returns. I worked there for about two years, before working in appliances and vacuum and grills at Lechmere. I left Lechmere and moved to Apex, another department store that has since gone out of business. After Apex I worked at Wal-mart which was ironically the highest paying of the retail jobs that was non-commission. My final retail job was Circuit City. When I was working at Circuit city I was actually a lawyer in my first or second year. The pay was very low when I started. It was fortunately I liked the work and never was doing it for the money. I even worked for a brief time when selling alarms with ADP. I have always enjoyed sales and the hard work that people have to make to have a sales career.

I knew I wanted to be a lawyer from a young age. I learned the value of hard work from my father who is and was a plumber. I would go to work with him and see him live his life everyday. The consistency rubbed off on me. Each day he would wake up early and go to work; always having something to accomplish a a project he was passionate about. It was from doing manual labor that I realized that was not for me and my father told me many times, if you do not do well in school, this is where you will be. I began doing better in school as I got older and discovered that there was so much to the law. It is never the same everyday; it requires constant improvement and keeping up with the change. I thought something as complex as the law would keep be interested and I wanted to work with people as well. When I wake up at 5:30 in the morning to start my day, I think of my father doing the same things an how are lives are basically the same, helping people just with different problems.