Joshua Paul Stock

Joshua Stock is a passionate, innovative, and resourceful attorney who specializes in traffic and criminal cases. He is fluent in Spanish (habla español). Josh has represented thousands of clients charged with various types of cases including DUI/DWI, Reckless Driving, Drug Possession, Eluding, and Assault & Battery throughout Virginia. He has often found creative legal arguments and mitigation to obtain dismissals or reductions of charges.

Prior to moving to private practice, Josh worked as an attorney at the public defender’s offices in Suffolk and Virginia Beach, where he gained substantial trial experience. While there he became thoroughly familiar with issues in traffic cases and obtained dismissals by difficult judges in Reckless Driving cases using legal arguments that the court was not previously familiar with. He is passionate about defending the rights of his clients and ensuring that the judge understands that his clients are more than a simple piece of paper or police report.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Josh served as a law clerk for three judges on the Virginia Beach Circuit Court, which gave him a deep understanding of Virginia’s laws and how judges think. Josh graduated cum laude in the top 20% of his class in law school at George Mason University. He served as the research editor for the Civil Rights Law Journal. Josh’s article on double jeopardy and drug possession cases in Virginia was selected by the journal to be published. He founded GMU’s Criminal Law Society. During law school, he also interned with a criminal law firm in Fairfax and with the public defender in Spotsylvania.