Joshua Bean

Joshua Bean is a litigator with experience across a wide range of practice areas, including complex commercial litigation, civil rights, white-collar defense, and appeals. His practice covers the full lifecycle of complex disputes, from pre-litigation mediation through trial and appeal in federal and state courts.

Representative Matters:

• Represents private equity firms in plaintiff-side and defense-side disputes involving commercial fraud and negligent misrepresentation in mergers, acquisitions, and other equity sales.
• Represents a former CIA analyst in a federal criminal case brought under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
• Represents the authors of an award-winning children’s book and a public-school student in an Eleventh Circuit appeal challenging the viewpoint-discriminatory removal of the book from public school libraries based on its positive portrayal of same-sex parenting.
• Represents an individual in a complex and confidential state-law dispute at the trial and appellate levels.

Joshua previously served as a term law clerk to the Honorable Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. While studying at Columbia Law School, he externed for the Honorable Timothy M. Reif of the United States Court of International Trade and served as a criminal law teaching assistant to the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.