Overview

Josh is a zealous advocate for his clients as part of his detail-driven-and-merits-oriented legal practice. By thoroughly reviewing all available evidence relevant to a client’s legal need(s) at the front end of representation, Josh identifies the most effective legal strategy for achieving his clients’ respective objectives. Josh’s dedication to client service involves understanding who his clients are, what their relative legal and factual priorities are, and what his clients are ultimately seeking through legal action, regardless of whether their goals are known or unknown or otherwise immediately ascertainable or not. By utilizing his vast knowledge across various areas of legal subspecialty, government, and communications, Josh has a consistent and substantially flawless track record of facilitating favorable client outcomes through a creative and innovative approach to problem solving. This overall cost-effective approach ensures Josh is more than sufficiently prepared to prosecute and defend, or otherwise further, his client’s claims, defenses, and other legal, ethical, or moral interests at every step of the litigation and pre-litigation processes.

Josh spent the first three years of his practice as an associate at one of the largest private law firms operating in the State of Michigan, which had an international presence in supply chain litigation during Josh’s tenure. There, Josh represented publicly traded corporations and was primarily responsible for formulating winning litigation and other legal strategies in connection with complex commercial disputes. Josh has extensive experience practicing in Michigan State and Federal courts, including, without limitation, in various international disputes. From this experience, Josh has successfully navigated disputes or projects involving supply chain, Michigan State and Federal trademark infringement and unfair competition, trademark cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the enforcement of valid trademarks in certain serial numbers, the Michigan Consumer Protection Act, copyright infringement, patent infringement, intellectual property chain of ownership, Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices, injunctive relief, indemnity, mergers and acquisitions, automotive tooling, automotive just-in-time supply, bankruptcy, collections and lien law, fraudulent and voidable transfers, successor liability, piercing the corporate veil and alter egos, business defamation, civil rights, the Hague Convention on Service, the Hague Convention on Evidence, international civil and criminal liability exposures, alternative dispute resolution, the Federal Arbitration Act, business valuations, damages calculations, common law and statutory conversion, default judgments, tortious interference, intentional fraud, fraudulent omissions, the “battle of the forms” in connection with commercial sales, unconscionability of contractual enforcement, impossibility and impracticability of contractual performance, frustration of contractual purpose, adequate assurances of contractual performance, contract interpretation, contract assignment and delegation, third-party beneficiary enforcement of contractual rights, breach of representations and warranties, the constitutionality of agreements to consent to jurisdiction and venue, shareholder oppression, service of process, franchise law, tax law, the Michigan Sales Representative Commissions Act, the sales commissions laws of other states, commercial drone use, probate law, premises liability, product warranty, asbestos exposure, constructive notice for the purposes of the statute of limitations in asbestos litigation, administrative agency statutory interpretation, the United States of America Inflation Reduction Act, the United States of America False Claims Act, personal jurisdiction, discovery, the natural flow of surface water, government contracting, lay and expert witness opinions, cannabis licensing and land use, cannabis retailers, credit and debit card processing networks, virtual automatic teller machine services, short-term rental properties, civil and criminal contempt in Michigan, the Michigan CROWN Act, and more.

During and before law school, Josh served in various roles at the Michigan State Legislature under now-Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (SD-29, Grand Rapids/Kentwood), then-State Representative Jon Hoadley (HD-60, Kalamazoo/Portage), and then-State Representative Vanessa Guerra (HD-95, Saginaw/Buena Vista). As the Office of Senator Winnie Brinks’s Legislative Director, Josh facilitated the introduction of various pieces of legislation that eventually were signed into law, including, without limitation, a bill to repeal a 1931 law criminalizing certain abortion procedures and did so immediately upon the continued existence of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) being called into question. Further, in 2018, Josh, through his participation in the Michigan Legislature’s Progressive Women’s Caucus, championed an effort to organize a petition drive to enshrine 14^th Amendment rights of abortion access under Roe into the Michigan State Constitution.

While studying law at Michigan State University, as well as during his time studying law while taking certain courses offered by Saginaw Valley State University, Josh received numerous awards for his academic excellence and legal prowess, including, without limitation, various awards from his participation in national and regional Moot Court competitions. Graduating summa cum laude at both Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University, Josh consistently earned degrees while ranked at the very top of his class. At Michigan State University, Josh graduated 9^th in his class despite working part time almost the entirety of his three years in law school. And, upon passing the Michigan State Bar Exam, which, at the time, was consider as one of the most difficult Bar exams in the Nation, Josh received a score that placed him comfortably within the top 5% of his cohort. Josh’s pattern of consistent and continued excellence has followed him in his legal practice; he has never lost a case and has no plans to do so any time soon.

Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Michigan
• Government Law Section
• Intellectual Property Law Section
• Litigation Section
• Oakland County Bar Association
• Business Court & Counsel Committee
• Circuit Court Committee
• Debtor/Creditor Committee
• Law-Related Education Committee
• Lawyer Well-Being Committee
• Membership Committee
• Municipal Law Committee
• New Lawyers Committee
• Providing Access to Legal Services Committee
• Professional Development Committee
• Real Estate Committee
• Tax Law Committee
• Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter

Community/Civic Activities

• Certified Pro Bono Mediator for the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan’s Pro Se Civil Rights Litigation Early Mediation Program

Honors & Awards

• Formal Admission to the Practice of Law, Michigan State Supreme Court, Viviano, J. (April 2022)
• Jurisprudence Achievement Award, Basic Will Drafting (May 2021)
• Jurisprudence Achievement Award, Intellectual Property Survey (May 2021)
• Jurisprudence Achievement Award, Trademark Law & Unfair Competition (May 2020)
• Presented Recipient of the Great Seal of the State of Michigan, Michigan State Senate (October 2020)
• Nationals First Place Oralist Team, Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court Competition (May 2020)
• Nationals Second Place Team, Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court Competition (May 2020)
• Jurisprudence Achievement Award, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication (December 2019)
• First Place, Michigan State University Law Review’s Donald Nystrom Best Brief Competition (April 2019)
• Semi-Finalist, Michigan State University’s Advocacy Oral Argument Competition (April 2019)
• Jurisprudence Achievement Award, Research, Writing, and Analysis: Intellectual Property Perspective (December 2018)
• Qualified Competitor, American Moot Court Association’s National Tournament (January 2017)
• Presented Recipient of a State of Michigan Special Tribute, the Offices of Representative Jon Hoadley HD-60, Kalamazoo/Portage, and of Gov. Rick Snyder (December 2016)
• Second-Place Oralist, American Moot Court Association’s Saginaw Valley State University Regional Competition (December 2016)
• Most-Improved Store, Alliance Mobile f/k/a Midwest Mobility Solutions AT&T (January 2016)

Admissions

• State Bar of Michigan
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan

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Education

• Michigan State University, Juris Doctor, summa cum laude
• Saginaw Valley State University, B.A., Political Science & Communication, summa cum laude