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Joe is the President of the law firm and Chairman of the Management Committee. His practice focuses on complex commercial and personal litigation and white-collar criminal defense work. His clients have included IBM (product liability issues); Bristol Myers Squibb (antitrust claim); the American Petroleum Institute (MTBE litigation); Shaw's Supermarkets (a wide variety of issues); numerous individual and corporate clients relating to criminal tax and environmental allegations; major national music retailers (Maine’s first Multidistrict litigation regarding antitrust claims) and numerous other individual and corporate clients both as plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal criminal matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Joe was a trial attorney with the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he tried tax cases (criminal and civil) and political corruption cases in numerous federal courts around the country. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Maine until 1989. During this time period he continued to be lead trial counsel in a large number of federal civil and criminal matters.
Joe received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Tufts University (magna cum laude, 1971) and his law degree from Georgetown University (1976). He has been a lecturer at numerous Justice Department seminars around the nation and at many continuing legal education programs for both local and national groups concerning various aspects of state and federal trial practice. He has been selected for inclusion in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense law and New England Super Lawyers for business litigation, white collar defense, and civil litigation defense.
Joe has served on the Cape Elizabeth Town Council, which he chaired from 1997 to 1999, and has previously served via appointment of the Governor as Chairman of the Maine Criminal Justice Commission. Cape Elizabeth has been home for Joe and his family since relocating from Washington, DC.
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