Joshua D. Stadtler
Partner
Joshua Stadtler is an experienced and versatile business and real estate litigator known for creatively achieving early resolution of complex disputes. He regularly represents and counsels individuals and businesses of all sizes in litigation involving commercial, corporate, employment, insurance coverage, and trust/estate issues.
Josh draws on the breadth of his litigation and life experience to connect with his clients and understand their concerns within the context of the dispute at hand and the framework of the business and industry realities his clients face. His clients benefit from his collaborative approach to identify and evaluate goals, recognize and assess risk, and develop and implement strategies to realize the client’s desired result efficiently and cost-consciously.
Josh has represented clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative proceedings throughout the country, at numerous mediations and arbitrations, and in investigations conducted by state and federal regulatory enforcement agencies. He was selected for inclusion by Super Lawyers on the Oregon Rising Stars list for business litigation from 2017 through 2020.
Within the Portland law firm, Josh serves as Hiring Partner and as a member of the Pro Bono Committee, which oversees participation in a legal clinic serving indigent clients in collaboration with Legal Aid Services of Oregon. He maintains an active pro bono practice of his own, in which he has represented numerous victims of domestic violence in restraining order hearings, a US citizen in obtaining legal status for her husband (an undocumented Mexican national), and a Portland, Oregon non-profit organization in earning financing, performing due diligence, and closing on the purchase of a $3.5 Million one-acre campus. For those efforts, he was honored by the Multnomah Bar Association in 2015 and featured in Super Lawyers in 2018.
Josh serves as co-leader of the firm’s trademarks practice, overseeing U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Actions, and advising clients on how to deal with trademark registration obstacles.
Josh’s community involvement in Portland extends beyond his work as a business litigation attorney, most notably to his service on the Board of Directors for Portland Homeless Family Solutions since 2014, currently as Vice Chair.
Josh is one of 21 attorneys worldwide who serve on the Board of Directors of Meritas, a global alliance of prequalified independent law firms. He also serves on the U.S. Leadership Committee and participates in the U.S./Canada Litigation, and Labor and Employment Groups. He was the firm’s ambassador from 2016 to 2019, and has served as one of the firm’s member contacts since 2020.
Prior to joining Dunn Carney, Josh practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area office of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a global AmLaw 100 firm, and served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Peter J. Busch in the Law & Motions Department of the San Francisco Superior Court.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Josh served in the United States Peace Corps in South Africa, and spent several years traveling on his own across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. More than a decade later, he remains fluent in Spanish.
When Josh is not at our Portland office, he is likely hanging out with his young daughters Stella and Lucy and his wife Lily, cheering at Providence Park in the Timbers Army or at home for the Wisconsin Badgers, or swimming laps in the pool.
Admissions
Oregon
Washington
California
District of Columbia
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
Education
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., English, cum laude, 2002
Languages
Spanish
