About John Mario Acosta
John Mario Acosta Jr. constructed a legal trail that started in the classroom and moved quickly into courtrooms. He earned a J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 2015 after finishing graduate and undergraduate research in criminal justice at Troy University, the place he received a M.S. in 2012 and a B.S. in 2010.
Early in his legal training Acosta worked throughout a range of public workplaces. In 2014 he served as a judicial clerk to William Alexa in Superior Court No. 2 and finished internships with the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office. The following year he took on more than one externships and clerkships, which includes placements with the Northern District of Indiana Federal Community Defender’s Office, the Porter County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Lake County Public Defender’s Office (Conflicts Division). He additionally clerked at Bockman & Associates, LLC in 2015.
After law school he moved into practice. In 2016 he opened Acosta Law Office P.C. That identical yr he labored as a deputy prosecutor in the Porter County Prosecutor’s Office. By 2019 he was serving as Chief Deputy Prosecuting Lawyer at the Starke County Prosecutor’s Office. His work has therefore covered time as both a prosecutor and as a clinician in public defender and federal defender settings at some point of his training years.
Acosta’s educational background is rooted in felony justice, and his expert document reflects that. He holds a regulation enforcement officer certification from the Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Council, a credential that speaks to additional training past conventional legal study. He has handled things tied to criminal law from multiple vantage points: as a prosecutor, as a regulation clerk observing trial-level adjudication, and thru protection-related externships.
On the local bar scene Acosta has been active. He has served as Vice President of the Porter County Bar Association since 2015. He held memberships within the Indiana State Bar Association and in regional teams such as the Calumet Inns of Court and the Lake County Bar Association between 2014 and 2018. Those affiliations provided ordinary contact with judges and practitioners across northern Indiana.
Today he practices because the principal of Acosta Law Office P.C., where his knowledge in prosecutorial workplaces and defender programs informs how he approaches cases. He presently focuses his practice on matters arising from the criminal justice system and associated legal proceedings in Indiana.
