Admissions

  • New York

Recognitions

  • The Legal 500  United States
    2018-19, 2015-16 - Recommended, Insurance: Advice to Insurers

Joe has been named a New York Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine every year since 2006, including being recognized in the 2008 through 2014 Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition® which highlights business litigators. He also was a finalist for Lawdragon's 500 Leading Lawyers in America in 2006 and 2007. In addition, he has been listed in the Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Commercial Litigation 2010, Marquis Who's Who in America for the last eight consecutive years, and multiple times in Marquis Who's Who in American Law, Marquis Who's Who in the World, and Marquis Who's Who in the East.

Joe was the recipient of the 2021 Irish Legal 100 Award (October 28, 2021)

Education

  • J.D., University of Maryland School of Law 1987
  • B.A., Hamilton College 1982

Courts

  • Supreme Court of Illinois
  • Supreme Court of New Jersey
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • United States District Court for the District of Arizona
  • United States District Court for the District of Colorado
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of New York

Memberships

  • American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, Founding Member (2013 − Present)
  • Professional Liability Underwriters Society (1997 − Present)
  • American Bar Association (1994 − Present)
  • The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1988 − Present)
  • ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section's Task Force on Corporate Governance (2005 − 2008)
  • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Board Director (2005 – 2009)
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, Board of Trustees (2005 − 2018), Executive Committee (2007 − 2018), and Audit Committee Chair (2007 − 2018)