Joshua Gardner is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer at DLA Piper who teaches trial advocacy, evidence, depositions, and civil litigation courses and devotes significant time to training lawyers in witness preparation and examination strategy. Over more than two decades in private practice and at the U.S. Department of Justice, he has litigated some of the nation’s most consequential constitutional, administrative, commercial, and regulatory disputes, led trial teams through more than a dozen bench and jury trials, examined and cross-examined a broad array of fact and expert witnesses, and managed litigation involving billions of dollars in claimed damages.