Joseph Hoelscher is a proud to be a San Antonio native and Criminal Defense Lawyer for Bexar and nearby counties. After graduating from MacArthur High School, he attended St. Mary’s University through graduate school, where he was the International Public Debate Association’s Nation Champion Debater in 1998.

While earning two Masters Degrees, in International Relations and Communication Studies, he began coaching speech and debate at St. Mary’s University and the Texas Military Institute. He quickly became a Texas State Champion Coach and helped his students place in the Top 10 nationally at the high school and university levels. During that time, Joseph spent years studying how regular people decide complex disputes between third parties. Believing that what he learned would help him work well with juries, he decided to pursue a second career as a trial lawyer.

Joseph chose to attend Baylor Law School, which Princeton review called “the Marine Corps of law schools” because of its rigorous trial advocacy program, Practice Court. He was an award-winner member of Baylor’s nationally competitive advocacy team and helped design new trial assignments for Practice Court. He also worked as a Law Clerk for Texas Criminal District Judge George Allen and for the internationally recognized criminal defense firm Goldstein Goldstein & Hilley.

Joseph started his own practice in 2007 and exclusively practices criminal defense law. He was admitted to the Federal Bar in 2008. He is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, occasionally presenting lectures for other legal professionals and community groups. Other attorneys frequently retain Joseph to assist them in trial, especially in voir dire (jury selection). Among some high-profile cases, Joseph represented a fugitive featured on America’s Most Wanted. Avvo.com rates Joseph as “Excellent” and he invites his clients to review his performance there.