Joe is an experienced commercial litigator who serves on the Firm’s Board of Directors and as the Firm’s Deputy General Counsel. He focuses his practice on complex business litigation, banking litigation, consumer finance litigation, and class action defense. Joe is licensed to practice law in Florida, Kentucky and Michigan, is admitted to practice in 12 federal district courts, and he regularly arbitrates claims before JAMS and AAA.
Joe handles a wide variety of individual and class action matters at the trial court and appellate levels involving contract and lease disputes, coal supply agreements, force majeure provisions, non-competition employment cases, banking litigation, creditors’ rights, FDCPA/FCRA/TCPA compliance and FDCPA/FCRA/TCPA defense litigation
Joe has appeared before the Sixth and Eleventh circuit courts of appeal and in federal and state courts in California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia. He has also arbitrated complex commercial cases in numerous states in the southeast, and he has handled nearly 500 consumer arbitrations before the AAA/JAMS on behalf of several consumer finance and FinTech clients. He has handled multi-million dollar serial litigation and class action lawsuits involving hundreds of parties and witnesses, and also provides advice and litigation services to a variety of businesses on general commercial matters, including the UCC, lender liability claims, commercial workouts, and close corporation shareholder disputes.
