Over the 10 years Joshua London, Esq., has been practicing law, he has established himself as one of the Twin Cities’ premier trial lawyers. Joshua is known as a passionate defender and an aggressive advocate. He started London Defense, PLLC, in 2017 to provide the highest quality representation tailored to the individual client’s needs. Over the course of his career, Joshua has won acquittals and dismissals across the state of Minnesota. In addition to being an award-winning trial attorney, Joshua is actively involved with Minnesota’s criminal defense community and teaching continuing education classes for other lawyers.
Joshua had previously served as the Operations Officer of the Veterans Defense Project, a non-profit organization founded to advocate for the vigorous legal defense of military veterans facing criminal charges.
In his position, Joshua played an essential role in editing and publishing the legal treatise, The Attorney’s Guide to Defending Veterans in Criminal Court, a comprehensive manual to the art and science of defending criminally involved combat veterans with PTSD, TBI, substance abuse, or other service-related disorders. This treatise brings together preeminent experts from the fields of law, medicine, social work, psychology, and psychiatry to provide practitioners with the knowledge and tools to provide effective, vigorous representation of veteran-defendants.
From the moment Joshua began his career as an attorney, he has exclusively practiced criminal defense. Joshua started his career at Brockton D. Hunter, P.A., serving as an Associate Attorney with the firm. While in law school, he also served as a certified student attorney with Ramsey County in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was the President of The University of St. Thomas’s Jewish Law Students Association. Joshua was on the St. Thomas William E. McGee Civil Rights and Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Teams, and won the Dean’s Award for Trial Advocacy in his final year at St. Thomas. His article, Why Are We Killing Veterans?, was published in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.
