Joseph Graziano

Joey Graziano is an attorney in Washington DC. A 2007 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Georgetown University, Joey graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012 where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar. During law school Joey worked at the Office of Evaluation and Suspension within the World Bank, focusing on anti-corruption concerns surrounding World Bank grants.

Driven by a blue-collar, service-oriented background and his father’s involvement in 9-11 as a New York City firefighter, Joey is dedicated to ensuring that the U.S. government honors its commitment to veterans by guaranteeing they are provided the federal benefits they earned through their service. Joey’s undergraduate research predicted that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan would experience high levels of negative stressors. To counter that, Joey began helping veterans to receive representation before the US Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims. Joey has since founded the Academy for Veterans and has worked as a law clerk at the National Veterans Legal Services Program.

While at Georgetown University, he was the starting third baseman on the baseball team, a four time Big East Academic All-Star, and the team’s Most Valuable Teammate. After graduating, Joey moved to a Dominican Republic barrio to run the non-profit Beisbol y Libros, which uses baseball to incentivize literacy for children.

In November 2010 Joey was named a Mitchell Scholar and moved to Galway, Ireland. He received his LLM in Public Law with First Honors from the National University of Ireland, Galway. His dissertation expounded on US laws that severely restrict the ability of veterans to hire the expert legal advocates that are needed to aid veterans in navigating a too often hostile and complex Veteran Administration’s disability adjudication system. Joey utilized the Irish and UK veteran disability compensation systems as points of comparison.

Joey and his family were featured in a 20009 Huffington Post article.