Profile
Joshua Carpenter is a commercial litigator with a focus on products liability, construction and real estate disputes, appellate litigation, and maritime matters. He represents global manufacturers, engineering and design-build firms, and developers across the manufacturing, construction, real estate, transportation, and hospitality industries in complex, high-stakes matters nationwide.
Josh regularly litigates and arbitrates cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has first-chair trial experience, has tried cases to verdict in federal court, argued appeals at both the state and federal levels, and served as lead counsel in American Arbitration Association proceedings through final award. In addition to disputes, he advises clients on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and targeted transactional issues, including drafting warnings, instructions, and other materials designed to reduce litigation exposure.
A significant portion of Josh’s practice is devoted to product liability defense. He represents manufacturers and distributors in claims involving strict liability, design defect, wrongful death, negligence, fraud, failure to warn, and breach of warranty and contract. His experience spans individual actions, class actions, and multidistrict litigation across the country. He has deep experience in the marine and recreation products industry, where he defends vessel, engine, and equipment manufacturers in matters involving carbon monoxide exposure, propeller strike injuries, and alleged design defects. His work in this space includes regulatory preemption defenses under the Clean Air Act, product recalls coordinated with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Daubert challenges to opposing experts. Beyond marine products, Josh represents manufacturers in the pharmaceutical, electronics, and consumer logistics sectors.
In his construction and real estate practice, Josh represents both plaintiffs and defendants. He defends Fortune 500 engineering and design-build firms against professional negligence, breach of contract, and fraud claims on large public infrastructure projects, including multimillion-dollar Florida Department of Transportation roadway projects. He also represents developers in disputes arising from commercial property acquisitions, land use issues, and fraudulent misrepresentations, pursuing breach of contract, negligence, and fraud claims.
Josh takes a phased approach to dispute resolution. He works closely with clients with the goal of preventing disputes before they arise, working towards early and efficient resolution when conflicts emerge, and litigating aggressively through trial or arbitration when necessary.
Concentrations
- Products liability litigation
- Real estate litigation
- Construction litigation
- Commercial litigation
- Appellate litigation
- Maritime disputes
主要执业方向
主要执业经验
- Served as lead counsel in defense of one of the largest home-builders in America.°
- Served as lead counsel for a global manufacturer of electronics in design defect fire loss claims brought by property owners and insurance companies.°
- Served as lead counsel for a national engineering and design-build firm on a large multimillion-dollar Florida Department of Transportation roadway project involving allegations of professional negligence, breach of contract, and fraud related to design services and bidding estimates for the project.°
- Served as lead counsel for local developers in Florida in several cases where they contracted to purchase real commercial property, only to discover a number of false and fraudulent representations regarding the property.°
- Served as lead counsel for a global leader in marine and recreation products in a claim brought by a medical doctor who alleged she and her family (including two minor children) were poisoned by carbon monoxide emanating from a generator equipped on a vessel manufactured by the client.°
- Served as lead counsel for a world-leading supplier of power solutions for marine and industrial applications in a breach of warranty case involving claims of fraud.°
- Served as lead counsel for a global leader in marine and recreation products in a wrongful death claim brought by the estate of a teenage girl who alleged that the design and warnings on the client’s recreational pontoon boat were unreasonably dangerous and defective, thereby causing the teenage girl to fall from the bow of the vessel and be struck by a propeller.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Carpenter prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
荣誉和领导力
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Commercial Litigation and Transportation Law, 2022-2025
- Recipient, Florida Daily Business Review, “Most Effective Lawyers Pro Bono Award,” 2019
- Member, Dade County Bar Association, 2013-Present
- Member, Florida Dive Bar (SCUBA Diving Bar Association), 2017-2020
资历
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J.D., summa cum laude, University of Kansas School of Law
- Order of the Coif
- Editorial Board, University of Kansas Law Review
- B.A., cum laude, University of Florida
- B.S., cum laude, University of Florida
- Third District Court of Appeal, State of Florida, 2013-2015
- Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit