Joshua Joel

Josh is an employment and business litigator and a member of KCO’s employment and class action defense litigation team. He has successfully represented a full range of businesses with an emphasis on emerging tech companies. Josh has substantial experience advising clients in a wide range of employment litigation and counseling at both mid-size and large law firms in Atlanta.  This includes, representing, clients in disputes involving restrictive covenants, trade secrets, discrimination, wage and hour, OSHA, and FMLA. He also counsels his clients on TCPA and consumer protection compliance and other day-to-day business issues.

Josh graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from the Georgia State University College of Law, where he served as Legislation Editor for the Georgia State Law Review and interned for Chief Justice Hugh P. Thompson of the Supreme Court of Georgia. After law school, Josh served as a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Prior to law school, Josh lived nearly a decade in Israel, where he obtained his Bachelors in Talmudic Literature from Yeshiva Bais Yisroel and rabbinic ordination from the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. He is proficient in Hebrew and has worked with Israeli-based startups and other companies.

Josh also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Torah Day School of Atlanta, including chairing their legal advisory committee and has held various Board of Trustees roles at Congregation Beth Jacob. He is a member of the Board of Councilors for the American Jewish Committee and volunteers his time with a number of other non-profit organizations.