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Joshua Conaway is a partner at Fadduol, Cluff, Hardy & Conaway, P.C., where he has practiced since 2011. With 23 years of legal experience, Josh is a graduate of the University of New Mexico (2000) and Gonzaga University School of Law (2003, with honors). He began his legal career on the defense side before making a deliberate choice in 2009 to represent plaintiffs — people who needed a skilled and tenacious advocate in their corner. That decision has defined the arc of a career devoted to accountability and justice.
In his first decade as a plaintiff’s attorney, Josh took on some of the largest energy companies in the country, securing settlements on behalf of clients who suffered wrongful death, spinal cord injuries, and catastrophic burns as a result of corporate negligence. Since 2018, his practice has focused primarily on representing children who were sexually abused in foster care, residential treatment centers, schools, and other institutional settings — cases that demand both legal precision and an unwavering commitment to the most vulnerable.
That commitment was on full display in 2023, when Josh served as his firm’s lead trial counsel in G.S. versus Acadia Healthcare, et al. A jury awarded $485 million on behalf of an 8-year-old girl who was repeatedly raped by her foster father, a treatment foster care parent licensed under the Acadia Healthcare umbrella. The verdict stands as the largest personal injury verdict in New Mexico history and, by many accounts, one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts ever obtained. That case, along with two (2) related matters, arising from the same course of conduct, ultimately resolved for $400 million in total settlement proceeds.
Outside the courtroom, Josh and his family have invested in the next generation of advocates for children and families. In honor of his grandparents, Josh’s family endowed the Louis and Jean Conaway Community Justice Project and Conaway Family Children and Parents Representation and Justice Initiative at Gonzaga University School of Law, a clinic dedicated to training law students to represent children in need. It is a reflection of the same belief that drives his practice: that every child deserves to be heard, believed, and protected.