Joshua Bean is a litigator with experience in a wide variety of practices areas, including complex commercial litigation, investment treaty arbitration, civil rights, criminal defense, and appeals.
Prior to joining Selendy Gay as an associate, Joshua served as a term law clerk to the Honorable Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Lawrence E. Kahn of the Northern District of New York.
He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as a criminal law teaching assistant to the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff and a comparative constitutional law research assistant to Professor Jamal K. Greene. Joshua also served as the Executive Online Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and externed for the Honorable Timothy M. Reif of the United States Court of International Trade. After his first year of law school, he completed a summer internship at the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Law Clerk to the Hon. Milan D. Smith, Jr.
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2023-2024
Law Clerk to the Hon. Lawrence E. Kahn
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, 2022-2023