Josh is an associate in the firm’s Commercial Litigation department. His practice spans a wide range of civil disputes, with focuses on complex litigation involving distressed or insolvent entities, insurance recovery, creditors’ rights litigation, financial-fraud and mass-tort actions, and asset-recovery litigation in bankruptcy and state-court receivership proceedings. Josh also maintains non-litigation practices in the areas of data privacy and corporate/financial restructuring.
Josh is a fluent Spanish speaker and maintains a pro bono practice representing clients in immigration proceedings. Prior to joining the firm, Josh clerked for bankruptcy judges in the Northern District of California and Northern District of Florida.
Experience
Civil Litigation
- Represented publicly traded distributor in mass-tort litigation and related insurance-recovery disputes involving multiple simultaneous proceedings in state and federal court.
- Represented major financial institutions in connection with Ponzi-scheme and other mass-fraud litigation in state and federal court.
- Defended major financial institution in complex litigation involving state-court receivership within marital dissolution proceeding.
- Represented liquidating trustee of insolvent multi-national enterprise in connection with asset-distribution disputes and creditors’ rights litigation.
Data Privacy
- Assist clients in complying with rapidly developing state-law data privacy laws and regulations.
- Advise clients in adopting policies and procedures to address litigation risks associated with biometric data and state and federal wiretapping laws.
Restructuring
- Advised natural gas distributor in connection with winddown of interstate pipeline project.
- Advise clients in navigating bankruptcy process of corporate affiliates.
- District of Columbia
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California
- Author, Shifting Gears on Insurer Participation in Chapter 11 Proceedings: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Longstanding “Insurance Neutrality” Doctrine, Pro Policyholder, June 12, 2024
- Author, Federal Regulators Update Policy on Commercial Real Estate Loan Accommodations and Workouts, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 12, 2023
- Author, Analog Law With Digital Teeth: Video Privacy Protection Act Litigation, Businesses’ Liability Risk, Password Protected, May 16, 2023
- Author, Iowa Joins Data Privacy Vanguard, Password Protected, April 11, 2023
- Author, The Door Opens for Astronomical Damages Under BIPA, Password Protected, March 7, 2023
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The George Washington University Law SchoolJD
with Honors
2019 - University of California, DavisBAEconomics and Spanish, minor in History2015
- Spanish
- Hon. Karen K. Specie, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida, 2019-2020
- Hon. Hannah L. Blumenstiel, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, 2020-2022