Louis P. Aloise

Louis P. Aloise is a graduate, magna cum laude, of Villanova University and of Boston College Law School. Prior to 1987, Mr. Aloise served as an assistant district attorney and chief trial counsel in Worcester County for nearly ten years. During that time, he was responsible for all major felonies, including homicides, sexually related offenses, robberies, white-collar crimes, and organized crime cases. Mr. Aloise has prosecuted in excess of forty homicide cases, of which approximately twenty went to jury verdict.

Mr. Aloise was previously a Partner with the law firm of Shumway, Giguere, Fox, Aloise, and Wilcox, P.C., from 1987 to 2002. There, he concentrated his work in the areas of personal injury and criminal defense. In 1993, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointed Mr. Aloise to the first of two three-year terms as a member of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS). In November of 1997, he was elected Chair of CPCS, becoming only the second Worcester-based lawyer ever to head that agency. In April 2023, Attorney Aloise was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Trial Court to a six-year term on the Commission on Judicial Conduct. He was subsequently elected Vice Chair in September 2025 and Chair in 2026.

Since 1987, he has concentrated his private practice in the areas of personal injury and criminal defense, including complex white-collar crimes, homicides and other violent crimes.

In 2002, Mr. Aloise was named Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year for his and his partner, Michael C. Wilcox’s, work in defense of the mentally challenged woman accused of starting the Worcester Cold Storage Fire which claimed the lives of six Worcester firefighters. Additionally, Mr. Aloise enjoys an AV-Preeminent Rating AV-Preeminent peer review rating by Martindale Hubble, the highest possible rating and has been named numerous times as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer since 2006.

Mr. Aloise has tried hundreds of cases to jury verdict, and is lauded for his mastery of the rules of evidence and criminal procedure. While engaged in both public and private practice, Mr. Aloise has also taught legal courses at several well-respected educational institutions. He was an Adjunct Professor at Worcester State College, teaching Business Law and Corporate Law, from 1977 to 1978; an Adjunct Professor of Law at Anna Maria College, teaching Search and Seizure Law and “Contemporary Legal Issues,” from 1997 to 1999; and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Western New England School of Law, teaching Forensic Evidence, from 2008 to 2017.

His practice today consists of both civil and criminal trial work. He has advised major corporations and sports franchises, but can also be found in our local District Courts on a regular basis. Attorney Aloise is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the bars of the Federal District Court and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Aloise is married and the father of three children and the grandfather of six.