Josh is Senior Litigation Counsel at the Bonjean Law Group where he focuses on civil rights litigation including Section 1983 lawsuits brought by wrongfully convicted clients. Josh has significant experience developing and executing litigation strategies for clients whose constitutional rights have been violated—by police, prisons, or other state actors. 

Josh started his legal career in Chicago, Illinois as a criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Right out of law school, he was on the ground handling every stage of criminal cases, representing clients facing everything from misdemeanors to the most serious Class X felonies. He also represented clients on a range of civil rights matters, including federal court cases involving illegal searches, false arrests, excessive force, and wrongful death. Josh litigated successful cases against municipalities, school districts, and private security companies, and has taken multiple civil rights cases to jury trial in federal court—securing favorable verdicts and holding law enforcement accountable for unconstitutional conduct.

In 2020, Josh moved to New York City and litigated cases representing prisoners' civil rights, particularly unconstitutional medical care in state prisons. At a small civil rights firm, he worked on multiple class action lawsuits, including serving as co-counsel on federal trials against the New York State Department of Corrections that resulted in permanent injunctions that remedied the unconstitutional and widespread practice of cutting off pain medication without medical justification for patients suffering chronic pain and neuropathic conditions. He also supported the reinstatement of a long-standing Consent Decree to monitor and improve the healthcare system at Green Haven Correctional Facility. 

Josh holds a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago and earned his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School, where he served on Law Review. He’s admitted to practice in Illinois and New York, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York; the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.