Andrew J. Gambaccini, Attorney

Andrew Gambaccini focuses his practice in the areas of appellate advocacy and general civil litigation, with an emphasis in the areas of employment law and disputes implicating constitutional concerns and interests. In addition, Attorney Gambaccini has extensive experience in defending law enforcement officers in connection with all manner of claims made against them, or otherwise in vindicating their interests in various settings.  

With respect to his appellate practice, Attorney Gambaccini has briefed and argued matters pending before the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and also has briefed matters presented to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.  In connection with his litigation practice, and in particular his representation of law enforcement officers, Attorney Gambaccini has secured successful outcomes in criminal and civil matters in various fora, including matters pending in federal court, in state court, before the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and before boards, appointing authorities and hearing officers across the Commonwealth.  In addition to his representation of members of the Massachusetts State Police and campus police officers for a number of colleges, Attorney Gambaccini has defended police officers in well more than fifty municipalities across Massachusetts.  That broad and deep experience with law enforcement officers consistently includes the defense of officers in civil rights and other forms of civil action in federal and state court, the defense of officers with regard to charges of discrimination before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and in court, the defense of officers during disciplinary hearings at local levels and before the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission and at arbitration, the defense of officers in criminal proceedings and the representation of officers who are subjected to professional standards or internal affairs inquiries.

Attorney Gambaccini is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where he received an A.B. degree both in history and in political science and where he was a founding staff member of the Holy Cross Journal of Law and Public Policy. Attorney Gambaccini also is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law. While in law school, Attorney Gambaccini was a member of the Moot Court Board and the National Italian American Bar Association, served as a lead articles editor for the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal and for two years served as a constitutional law teaching assistant for Professor Loftus E. Becker, Jr. Also during law school, Attorney Gambaccini received the Federal Bar Council's Cornelius Wickersham Award in Constitutional Law as well as CALI awards for excellence in the study of contracts, in constitutional law and in an advanced constitutional law class focused upon the structural limitations associated with federalism and the separation of powers.

Following graduation from law school, Attorney Gambaccini served as a law clerk to the Honorable Flemming L. Norcott, Jr., Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Attorney Gambaccini is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, as well as the First Circuit Court of Appeals.  A member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Attorney Gambaccini also is a member of the Worcester County Bar Association as well as a charter member of the National Constitution Center. Attorney Gambaccini is a member of the Federal District Court Committee of the Worcester County Bar Association, is a volunteer attorney for the Pro Bono Center of the Federalist Society and also has sat on the By-law Committee for the Town of West Boylston and the Board of Directors for the Holy Cross Lawyers Association.

In 2008, Attorney Gambaccini was selected by the publisher of Super Lawyers Magazine as a Massachusetts Rising Star.  Having handled a number of high profile cases during his career, Attorney Gambaccini has appeared on the television and radio broadcasts of several media outlets, while also regularly being interviewed by newspapers across the Commonwealth.