Joseph Tartakovsky represents clients in government investigations and enforcement actions and complex civil litigation, with a particular focus on constitutional law and pharmaceutical matters. He is based in Eimer Stahl’s California office.
Joseph brings nearly a decade of experience in senior government roles. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California, Joseph led investigations and prosecutions involving cybercrime, cryptocurrency, money laundering, healthcare and consumer fraud, and drug and pharmaceutical offenses, regularly working with federal enforcement agencies. In his role as Deputy Solicitor General of Nevada, he advised the Attorney General and Governor on constitutional and regulatory issues, argued appeals in state and federal courts, and co-authored briefs that resulted in multiple U.S. Supreme Court certiorari grants.
In private practice, Joseph has represented clients in appellate and constitutional matters, white-collar defense, and complex commercial disputes involving privacy, intellectual property, trade secrets, and labor law. He also represented the City of Boise in a landmark Ninth Circuit case involving homelessness law, which led to his co-authorship of No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity (2021).
Joseph is also the author of The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (2018), a #1 Amazon bestseller in constitutional law. His commentary has appeared in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.
Joseph earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law and clerked for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.