JOAN M. GRIFFIN is a Boston trial attorney with more than twenty years’ experience trying civil and criminal cases. She has litigated intellectual property and business cases for science and technology companies and has represented criminal defendants in federal court on a variety of matters including fraud, obstruction of justice, RICO violations, conspiracy, and narcotics trafficking. Ms. Griffin brought the first Daubert motion challenging the scientific basis for expert ballistics evidence in the country, resulting in the defendant’s acquittal. In a recent RICO case in Federal District in Boston she obtained one of two groundbreaking decisions excluding or limiting firearms identification evidence. Ms. Griffin is the author of “Daubert Challenges to Forensic Evidence: Ballistics Next on the firing Line,” which appeared in The Champion in 2002. She presents at conferences nationwide on challenging firearms identification evidence. She also appears frequently on New England Cable Network News (NECN), providing analysis of high-profile business fraud and other criminal cases. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986 and her B.S. in chemical engineering from Yale College in 1983. (November 2008)