Joshua Traver graduated cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Loyola Law School in 2003. He graduated cum laude from University of California, San Diego, in 2000. After practicing for three years with two civil litigation firms, he joined Cole Pedroza LLP as an associate in 2007, to focus on appeals, writs, law and motion, and to assist in the firm’s trial court work.
Joshua has litigated in the areas of aviation, real estate, healthcare, business, product liability, public entity, and copyright law. He is experienced in all aspects of pre-trial civil litigation and discovery. He is particularly skilled in crafting dispositive motions in complex cases.
During law school, Joshua earned placement on the Honors Board in Loyola’s Scott Moot Court competition, and competed in the Vis international arbitration moot in Vienna, Austria, where he and his teammates earned honorable mention for their brief. Joshua was inducted into Saint Thomas More law honor society in 2001, and the Alpha Sigma Nu national Jesuit honor society in 2003. He earned first honors (“American Jurisprudence”) awards in Trusts and Wills, Law of Sales, Arbitration, and Income Taxation. He clerked full-time for the Honorable Terry J. Hatter, Jr., Senior District Judge for the Central District of California, in the fall of 2002.
Joshua is a member of the Los Angeles and Ventura County Bar Associations
