JOSEPH G. WALSH is principal in Cohen and Wolf, P.C.'s Litigation Group and Chair of its Personal Injury Group. Resident in the firm's Danbury office, Mr. Walsh practices in the areas of personal injury, criminal and commercial litigation. He supervises many of the enforcement actions filed on behalf of our municipal clients.

Mr. Walsh joined Cohen and Wolf, P.C. in 1988. Before then, he was an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, New York, where, as a member of the Narcotics Bureau, he investigated and prosecuted New York's drug law offenders. He also served as Suffolk County's first attorney-in-charge of the East End Narcotics Task Force, a compilation of federal, state, county and town law enforcement officers investigating drug trafficking in the east end of Long Island, New York.

Mr. Walsh is admitted to practice in Connecticut; New York; Massachusetts; U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He serves as an attorney trial referee for the Judicial District of Danbury. Mr. Walsh is a member of the American, Connecticut and Danbury Bar Associations, the American and Connecticut Trial Lawyers Associations, and the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association since 2006. He served as president of the Danbury Bar Association in 1997. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Walsh is a manager in Ridgefield Babe Ruth Baseball and Ridgefield Little League. He has been on the Board of Directors of Ridgefield Little League since 1998, and served as past President (2003 through 2005). He has been a member of the Ridgefield Coalition Against Substance Abuse since the group's inception in 2004

Mr. Walsh received his B.S., summa cum laude, in 1980 from Manhattan College and his J.D., cum laude, in 1983 from Boston College Law School.