Representative Matters

FEDERAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE

McBride de­fends clients in fed­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tions and pros­e­cu­tions in the South­ern and East­ern Dis­tricts of New York, the Dis­trict of Co­lum­bia, and the South­ern Dis­trict of Flor­i­da. His fed­er­al work runs from pre-charge in­ves­ti­ga­tions through de­ten­tion hear­ings, mo­tion prac­tice, tri­al, and sen­tenc­ing. He has se­cured the re­lease of clients from fed­er­al cus­tody, in­clud­ing clients pre­vi­ous­ly de­nied bail mul­ti­ple times, and ob­tained a sen­tence of less than five years in a pros­e­cu­tion in­volv­ing mul­ti­ple kilo­grams of drugs and weapons. He has rep­re­sent­ed more than 25 Jan­u­ary 6 de­fen­dants and led the ad­vo­ca­cy for their pres­i­den­tial par­dons, which were grant­ed in Jan­u­ary 2025.

DEFAMATION & CIVIL LITIGATION

Joseph D. McBride rep­re­sents plain­tiffs and de­fen­dants in defama­tion ac­tions and com­plex civ­il dis­putes in­volv­ing sub­stan­tial fi­nan­cial, pro­fes­sion­al, and rep­u­ta­tion­al con­se­quences. He lit­i­gates in court and rep­re­sents clients in na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia, co­or­di­nat­ing le­gal strat­e­gy and pub­lic com­mu­ni­ca­tions with the firm's in-house pub­lic re­la­tions de­part­ment.

In Palm Beach Coun­ty, Flor­i­da, McBride filed a defama­tion ac­tion in 2023 on be­half of An­drew and Tris­tan Tate, al­leg­ing that false ac­cu­sa­tions con­trib­uted to their de­ten­tion in Romania. The case is sched­uled for tri­al in ear­ly 2027.

In Los An­ge­les, af­ter pros­e­cu­tors de­clined to pur­sue crim­i­nal charges against An­drew Tate in 2025, cit­ing in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence, McBride filed a $50 mil­lion cross-com­plaint al­leg­ing defama­tion and re­lat­ed claims.

Through­out both mat­ters, McBride has served as coun­sel and pub­lic spokesper­son for the broth­ers un­der sus­tained na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia at­ten­tion.

EXTRADITION & CROSS-BORDER DEFENSE

McBride has led the Amer­i­can le­gal team for An­drew and Tris­tan Tate since 2023 and di­rects their de­fense strat­e­gy across Romania, the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, the Unit­ed King­dom, and the Unit­ed States. With the in­ter­na­tion­al de­fense team, he se­cured the broth­ers' re­lease from de­ten­tion in Romania, and in Feb­ru­ary 2025 Ro­ma­ni­an au­thor­i­ties lift­ed their trav­el re­stric­tions, al­low­ing their re­turn to the Unit­ed States. In the South­ern Dis­trict of Flor­i­da, McBride leads the de­fense against the Unit­ed King­dom's ex­tra­di­tion re­quest, in­clud­ing an eight-hour bond hear­ing and habeas cor­pus lit­i­ga­tion.

CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS

McBride rep­re­sents mem­bers of Con­gress and has rep­re­sent­ed mul­ti­ple clients be­fore con­gres­sion­al com­mit­tees, in­clud­ing Alex Bruesewitz be­fore the House Se­lect Com­mit­tee in­ves­ti­gat­ing Jan­u­ary 6. He worked with more than 40 mem­bers of Con­gress to press for in­ves­ti­ga­tion, in­spec­tion, and pol­i­cy changes at the D.C. Jail, and he re­solves prob­lems for pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor clients fac­ing scru­ti­ny on Capi­tol Hill.

CUSTODY, DETENTION & PRISON CONDITIONS

McBride rep­re­sents clients held in jails and pris­ons in New York, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Vir­ginia, and Flor­i­da. He chal­lenges con­di­tions of con­fine­ment, lit­i­gates against the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of Pris­ons, war­dens, and oth­er cor­rec­tion­al of­fi­cials, and files habeas cor­pus pe­ti­tions and mo­tions for com­pas­sion­ate re­lease.

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