Joel Oster

Joel is a litigator, national speaker, and podcaster. He currently is specializing in attorney ethics and constitutional law. Being the host of the podcast, DeBriefing the Law, Joel regularly speaks on attorney ethics nationwide on issues relating to attorneys reaching their full protentional in the practice of law. Joel has spoken to numerous bench and bar conferences and as well as other specialized attorney conferences.

Joel has been lead counsel on two cases that ended up at the United States Supreme Court. He was counsel for the town of Greece, New York in the landmark case Galloway v. Greece. Joel argued the case before the United States District Court for the Western District of New York and the Second Circuit, and was part of the legal team presenting the case to the U.S. Supreme Court where they successfully defended the Town against a challenge to its practice of opening its sessions with an invocation. In addition, Joel argued Trinity Lutheran v. Comer before the Western District of Missouri and the Eighth Circuit, before the Supreme Court decided the case in favor of his clients.

Joel earned his J.D. in 1997 from the University of Kansas School of Law.

Joel Oster is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the state bars of Kansas and Florida; the United States District Court for the District of Kansas; the United States District Courts for the Western District of Missouri, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida; and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits.