Biography
Josef’s experience includes serving on Weil teams representing:
- Simon & Schuster in winning the dismissal of a pair of industry-wide antitrust class actions in the S.D.N.Y. relating to the markets for e-books and print books.
- A global pharmaceutical company in connection with contract disputes arising out of worldwide distribution agreements.
- A foreign museum before the New York Supreme Court and the First Department in obtaining the dismissal of a replevin action seeking turnover of a 14th-century manuscript.
- A provider of emergency air ambulance services in connection with a False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute investigation.
- A global steel company in defending against lawsuits seeking hundreds of millions in damages.
- A group of institutional lenders as plaintiffs in a $750 million dollar breach of contract dispute.
- National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, a bond insurer, in connection with Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy proceedings involving the public utility company Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
Josef also maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on civil and religious rights. His recent experience has included working on Weil teams to successfully appeal to the Second Circuit the dismissal of a religious institution’s claims against a local municipality for discriminatory manipulation of its zoning laws, resulting in the reinstatement of the institution’s claims. Josef has also helped secure a favorable settlement for tenants whose cooperative was discriminating against them on the basis of religion.
Josef received his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor of the Cardozo Law Review. During law school, he also served as a legal intern to the Honorable Robert W. Lehrburger, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Touro College.