Bio
After more than a decade as a high-powered executive in Corporate America, CEO and Founder Joshua White started Laurel Employment Law. Frustrated with what he saw from poorly run law firms offering a rotten client experience and companies that treated their employees like commodities instead of human beings, Joshua set out to build an employment law firm different than anything that had come before it.
After graduating near the top of his class at the UCLA School of Law, Joshua went into private practice in Santa Monica, California, practicing complex commercial litigation focused on multi-million dollar bet-the-company cases. From there, Joshua enjoyed a highly-decorated tenure as Head of Strategy and General Counsel for a large multinational corporation. During his tenure, he helped grow the company to nearly $400 million in revenue while being named a finalist for the Los Angeles Business Journal's General Counsel of the Year in 2015, being named the Los Angeles Business Journal's Rising Star General Counsel of the Year in 2016, being named to the Counselor Magazine Hot List in 2018 and being named a PPB Magazine Rising Star in 2018.
During his time in corporate America, Joshua was the chief architect of a positive and healthy workplace culture that won over a dozen different "Best Places to Work" awards, including being named the #1 Best Place to Work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2018 and 2020. His passion for the dignified and fair treatment of employees inspired him to start Laurel Employment Law.
More than a decade inside the C-Suite left Joshua with unique strategic insights into how employers think and a foundational understanding of how good businesses operate. Laurel was constructed to capitalize on that experience in order to do what matters most: Win for our clients.
When he's not winning for our clients, Joshua likes spending time with his loving wife Pippa and their trusty dog Ruby.