Fuchs, Joshua L.

Lawyer Overview

Josh Fuchs has jury trial, arbitration, and hearing experience including being a core member of a two-month jury trial team in Texas state court, a one-month arbitration team in Houston, and speaking roles in numerous class action, injunction, and discovery hearings. In addition, Josh has substantial experience dealing with governmental agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice. Josh has a broad base of practical experience with e-discovery including managing numerous data collections and reviews from hundreds of company employees spanning several countries.

Josh's cases have spanned the legal gamut including complex breach of contract, intellectual property (trade secret and copyright), toxic tort, product liability, fraud, antitrust, the False Claims Act, and market manipulation. Josh has worked with clients such as BP, Chevron, Experian, International Paper, KFC, Research In Motion, SAP, Sherwin-Williams, Textron, and Wal-Mart. Over his career, Josh has taken lead briefing roles in successful appeals and motions, first chaired a successful bench trial, and participated in multiple successful injunction and discovery hearings. He has taken and defended close to a hundred depositions. In addition, Josh has worked with a wide array of experts preparing cases for trial including economists, software engineers, metallurgists, epidemiologists, and land appraisers.

Josh has substantial success helping clients reduce e-discovery costs by presenting burden arguments to courts and opponents. Josh is a member of Jones Day's e-Discovery Team and helps design and conduct electronic discovery training programs for law firm associates.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Energy
• e-Discovery

Representative Cases

• Alderwoods defeats class certification motions in antitrust actions by consumers and casket distributors , (2009)
• Cooper Industries resolves liability insurance dispute over contaminated ground water , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Hardin - Simmons University
• South Texas College of Law

Address

717 Texas
Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002-2712

Phones

1.832.239.3719 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.832.239.3600 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com