Joshua Wolson

Joshua David Wolson (born 1974) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education Wolson graduated from Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. He then earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and his Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1999. Legal career After graduating law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Jan E. DuBois of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2000. Wolson then became an associate in the litigation and antitrust groups of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he worked for eight years. He returned to Philadelphia and joined Dilworth Paxson's litigation group in 2008, becoming a partner in 2010. He represented plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation matters, including antitrust, RICO, intellectual property, procurement, and civil rights disputes. He also served as a co-chair of the firm's Plaintiffs' Rights Practice Group and a member of the firm's executive committee.