Josh Galper is a Founding Partner of Trident, where he advises companies, boards, executives, investors, founders, universities, philanthropies, nonprofits, and public figures through their most consequential opportunities, challenges, and crises. 

Practice Focus

Josh is a trusted counselor and strategic advisor to clients across numerous industries and sectors, and his work spans the full range of Trident’s practices. He helps clients build and protect value through long-term corporate positioning, reputation, stakeholder engagement, and strategic communications programs and campaigns. Clients also turn to him to navigate complex, sensitive situations where business, reputational, legal, and political considerations converge. 

Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading crisis management advisors, Josh counsels clients on complex matters involving business, reputation, law, regulation, public affairs, and stakeholder engagement. Clients seek his counsel on high-stakes crises, litigation, investigations, and media and government scrutiny to help them address multi-faceted challenges involving communications, stakeholders, reputation, and business.

Recognition and Rankings

Chambers and Partners recognizes Josh individually as a top-ranked practitioner (Band 1) in its guides for both crisis communications and risk management as well as litigation and investigations communications. Lawdragon named Josh to its 2026 list of 100 Global Leaders in Legal Strategy & Consulting. Trident consistently earns Band 1 rankings in both Chambers guides and was awarded Legal 500’s highest ranking of Tier 1in its 2026 Dispute Services guide for PR and Communications firms. PRNews consistently names Trident to its Agency Elite list.

Chambers reports that clients describe Josh as “a consummate strategist and tactician with a razor-sharp intellect and rock-solid judgment,” and “the best there is, he’s a brilliant strategist.” Clients also praise his “impeccable instincts,” “360-degree perspective,” and ability to anticipate challenges, navigate complexity, and help leaders make sound decisions under pressure. 

Background

Before co-founding Trident, Josh led legal, policy, and communications at a technology company and, prior to that, was a partner at Orrick LLP, where he co-led the public strategies and crisis management group. 

Earlier in his career, Josh served in senior communications and policy roles on Capitol Hill, on presidential, statewide, and congressional campaigns, and in higher education. He has also served on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee and has taught courses on crisis management as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Josh began his legal career at Sidley Austin LLP as one of the first lawyers in the firm’s global privacy and cybersecurity practice.  

Josh graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School.