Overview
Josh represents both individual and corporate clients in criminal investigations and prosecutions, internal investigations, compliance matters, and complex civil litigation. His experience includes defending clients against a range of allegations including fraud, false statements, false claims, and other similar matters.
Josh has tried multiple federal cases to verdict and has experience examining witnesses and arguing motions in federal court. He also has extensive experience with fact development, responding to subpoenas and other requests for information, witness preparation and interviews and motion practice. Josh has supervised investigations, document reviews, and productions involving numerous witnesses, millions of documents, and complex cross-border privacy concerns.
While in law school, Josh worked with the Legal Aid Justice Center through the University of Virginia's Civil Rights and Child Advocacy clinics. He represented incarcerated youth at resentencing hearings and assisted on a federal class action suit representing incarcerated women in Virginia.
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, editorial board member at Virginia Environmental Law Journal
- B.A., Towson University
Representative Matters
- Served as a member of the independent compliance consultant team for several prominent financial institutions after settlements with the SEC and the CFTC regarding the collection and retention of employee electronic communications.
- Conducted an internal investigation for Board of Directors of publicly-traded global fintech company in response to allegations of fraud.
- In US v. Mingqing Xiao, obtained acquittal of grant fraud charges after trial for a Chinese professor charged under the DOJ's China Initiative in the Southern District of Illinois.
- In US v. Harold Bendelstein, obtained probation for medical doctor charged with healthcare fraud after multi-week trial in the Eastern District of New York.
- Represented a former global automotive company executive charged with bribery in the Central District of California.
News & Publications
The Mother Court
No Second Bite: Second Circuit Vacates Neil Cole Conviction on Double Jeopardy Grounds
November 10, 2025
By: Joshua Dupre
Press Releases
October 8, 2024
First to File
September 19, 2023
By: Patrick F. Linehan, Paul R. Hurst, Caitlin Conroy, Joshua Dupre, Rose Beattie
First to File
July 28, 2023
By: Tyler Evans, Paul R. Hurst, Patrick F. Linehan, Caitlin Conroy, Anna Menzel, Joshua Dupre, Rose Beattie
Resources
Client Alerts
FCPA/Anti-Corruption Developments: 2022 Year in Review
February 24, 2023
By: Iris E. Bennett