Dotie Joseph joined Rose & Rose, P.C. in April 2007. Ms. Joseph focuses her practice on civil rights litigation with a concentration on race discrimination.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Joseph served as a Judicial Law Clerk to several judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, including the Honorable Eugene Hamilton. In that capacity, she dealt with both criminal (misdemeanor and felony) and civil matters (probate and equity hearings).

Ms. Joseph has a proven passion for litigating human and civil rights issues. After interning at the Office of the Public Defender in Miami during high school, Ms. Joseph went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Yale University, With Distinction. At Yale, Ms. Joseph served as the Political Action Chairperson of the Yale N.A.A.C.P. After college, Ms. Joseph obtained a diploma from the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution in The Hague, Netherlands, where she studied conflict resolution from some of the top academicians and practitioners in the field.

Driven by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Ms. Joseph enrolled in Georgetown University Law Center to pursue a career in legal advocacy. Seeking to apply her classroom education to public practice, Ms. Joseph served as a Student Attorney in the Center for Applied Legal Studies Clinic, externed at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and interned with the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law.

Bar Admissions:

• Florida , 2005
  
• District of Columbia , 2007

Education:

• B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1997-2001
  
• Term Abroad, Columbia University, Paris, France 1999
  
• Diploma, Institute for International Mediation & Conflict Resolution, 2001
  
• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 2002-2005

Personal:

• Psalm 82:3 and Isaiah 1:17 (We are called to defend the cause of the oppressed, to seek justice, and to correct the oppressor.)