Joe helps business clients resolve complex commercial disputes, often involving sophisticated technology and international dimensions. He serves as lead counsel in high-stakes matters in state and federal courts across the United States, working closely with his clients to develop cost-effective strategies to achieve company objectives and resolve disputes, including through mediation and other alternatives to traditional litigation. Joe represents companies across a variety of industries, including hardware and software technology, energy, industrial equipment, building products, health care, consumer electronics, and wineries and vineyards.
Joe also regularly provides company management with strategic advice regarding commercial contracts, supply chain, force majeure, and other business-operations issues, including in an outside general counsel role. He partners with clients to craft strategies to capitalize on business opportunities, mitigate risk, and avoid costly litigation where possible.
In addition to contract and commercial matters, Joe has litigated and advised companies with respect to a wide variety of other business-critical legal matters, including marketing and advertising, antitrust, intellectual property, product liability, insurance coverage, and labor and employment issues. Joe has substantial experience counseling clients regarding advertising, marketing, and brand-protection matters and successfully litigating federal Lanham Act and state law false advertising claims with respect to products as varied as high-technology industrial products installed in power plants, building products used in residential housing, and mass-consumer products.
In addition to his practice, Joe is a member of the firm's Opportunity, Inclusion & Belonging Partner Committee and serves as co–partner in the Syracuse office.