John J. O’Connor Jr.
John J. O’Connor Jr. has been a practicing attorney since 1995. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1973 and New England School of Law in 1995, where he was an Editor of the Law Review and a recipient of the New England School of Law Scholar Award. He is admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
He retired from the U.S. Secret Service in August 1996 after more than 22 years as a Senior Special Agent. In addition to extensive protective responsibilities, he supervised and actively investigated financial crimes including counterfeiting, securities fraud, bank fraud and commercial/residential real estate fraud. During his last five years with the Service, he was a member of the Department of Justice New England Financial Crimes Task Force investigating bank fraud, examining hundreds of commercial and residential real estate transactions ranging from simple condominium loans to multi-million dollar commercial deals. He has been actively involved in real estate conveyancing since.
He also represents buyers and sellers in residential real estate transactions, and has extensive experience as a trial attorney in both civil and criminal matters. He is active in estate planning and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National Association of Exclusive Buyers Agents and the Massachusetts Association of Buyers Agents, and is an Associate Broker with Buyer Brokers Only, LLC. He is a guest lecturer for Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Belotti on financial crimes and identity theft. He has been a volunteer alpine patroller for the National Ski Patrol for 27 years and has been involved in Judo for over 40 years, most recently as a volunteer instructor with the Phoenix Judo Club in Braintree, MA.

