Josh Saunders, Esq.

Trial Attorney

 

Josh Saunders grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and received a B.A. magna cum laude in Anthropology and History.

 

After college, he spent several years traveling and working odd jobs until entering graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin. He won a National Science Foundation Fellowship for his research on globalization and media in South Asia, and published an article on psychoanalysis and horror films in the journal Text, Practice, Performance. He also won a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Hindi in 1999. He graduated with an M.A. in Anthropology (Folklore and Cultural Studies) in 2000 and moved to Brooklyn.

 

In New York, Josh worked for several years as a freelance journalist, writing articles about topics as diverse as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Sri Lankan nationalism, jury nullification, and women in biker gangs. He published pieces in Lingua Franca, Legal Affairs, and other magazines.

 

He entered New York University School of Law in 2003, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor. While at NYU, he served as Article Selection Editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. He also worked as an intern at the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Office of the Public Defender in Essex County, New Jersey, and at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. He participated in the Comparative Criminal Justice and Community Defender clinics.

 

He joined Brooklyn Defender Services in 2006 and is admitted to the bar in New York. He speaks Spanish and Italian decently, and French poorly.