Joseph VanZandt

Joseph VanZandt joined Beasley Allen in 2016, focusing on product liability in multi-district litigations. He is currently leading the national social media litigation.

Joseph has garnered numerous prestigious awards and recognitions throughout his career. In 2024, he was honored with the “On the Rise” award at the Daily Report’s Southeastern Legal Awards and named to the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation list. Business Insider named him a “Rising Star of the Courtroom: 15 Great Litigators of the Future” in 2022. He has also been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star, a Law360 Rising Star, listed among the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40, and awarded the Beasley Allen Mass Torts Lawyer of the Year in 2018. 

A trusted leader in high-profile national litigations with extensive trial experience, Joseph has played a key role in cases resulting in over $2.5 billion in settlements and verdicts. Recently, Joseph has focused on litigations affecting youth and education systems. He is currently Co-Lead Counsel in the largest centralized litigation against social media giants Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in Los Angeles, California. Additionally, he serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for a related federal case in the Northern District of California. In 2019, Joseph was the youngest lawyer appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the national litigation against JUUL e-cigarettes, successfully advocating for those harmed by the youth vaping crisis.

He is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Montgomery County Bar Association, American Association of Justice, and the Federal Bar Association. 

Joseph and his wife, Brittany, live in Pike Road, Alabama, with their two sons. They are active members of the University Church of Christ, where Joseph serves as a deacon and leads mission work in Guyana, South America. Joseph is on the Board of Directors for Agape of Central Alabama and Alabama Christian Academy. He also serves on the Jimmy Hitchcock Memorial Award Committee. 

Education

Joseph earned his B.S. degree in Political Science with a pre-law emphasis, graduating magna cum laude from Faulkner University in 2009. He then went on to earn his J.D. from Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in 2012, graduating summa cum laude.

During his time at Jones, Joseph served on the Faulkner Law Review, was on the Dean’s List every semester, and was presented with the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. He competed in the Interscholastic Moot Court competitions, including the National Appellate Advocacy Competition and the National Health Law Moot Court Competition.

Licenses

• Alabama (2012)