Overview

Joe is the Chair of Reminger’s Broker-Dealer and Investment Advisor Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Practice Group, and a senior member of the Financial Services, Securities Litigation, Business & Commercial Litigation, and Estates, Trusts and Probate Litigation groups. In his nationwide practice, Joe represents public and private companies and individuals in the financial services, banking, brokerage, insurance, real estate, manufacturing, and construction industries in a wide array of cases involving breach of contract and fraud claims, issues relating to claims of unfair competition and trade secrets violations, and general tort litigation.

His primary focus is complex securities litigation and arbitration, financial institution litigation, compliance consulting, regulatory investigations and inquiries, and broker-dealer liability defense, in which he represents broker-dealers, investment advisors, banks, and insurance companies and their licensed and registered personnel in claims involving allegations of professional misconduct. His background in business litigation and representing financial services providers also translates well into his experience in matters of estate and trust litigation.

With more than two decades of legal experience, Joe has earned a reputation throughout the state of Ohio and nationally as a litigator specializing in complex business disputes, commercial litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. He was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation, has been named repeatedly to the Ohio Super Lawyers list, a designation reserved for only 5% of Ohio lawyers, and has achieved Martindale-Hubbell's highest ranking, AV Preeminent®. According to feedback obtained during the rating process, Joe was described as an attorney who “excels at determining a strategy that is cost-effective for the client and then expertly executing that strategy through top-notch work product and advocacy,” and he was recognized as an “excellent lawyer with a wide range of experience and knowledge” who is “among the top defense counsel in the broker-dealer bar.”

Joe serves as the Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Litigation Section and is a member of the CMBA’s Board of Directors. He also currently serves as a member of the Judicial Selection Committee and Bar Admissions Committee  of the CMBA, is on the executive committee of the ADR Section of the Ohio State Bar Association, and serves on the Board of Directors of LifeAct of Northeast Ohio as a member of its Governance and Advocacy committees. He previously served as the Chair of the OSBA’s Litigation Section, Chair of the ADR Section of the CMBA, and Chair of the Securities Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association's Litigation Section. 

Joe also writes and speaks frequently throughout Ohio and nationwide on topics of interest to litigators and financial services professionals, and has been an active member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys (OACTA), the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

Honors & Recognitions

Rated AV® Preeminent™: Very Highly Rated in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards by Martindale Hubbell Peer Review

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation

Recognized as a Super Lawyer by Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine (2015-2020)

Community & Professional

Professional:

American Bar Association
- Litigation Section member, Membership and Marketing Committee member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and Securities Litigation Committee; past chair of Securities Litigation Committee; past co-chair of Securities Arbitration Subcommittee and member of Roundtable Committee

Ohio State Bar Association
- Litigation Section Council, Past Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, Litigation Section

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Member, Board of Directors
- Past Head of Programming, Litigation Section
- Chair, 2022 Litigation Institute
- Chair, Litigation Section
- Bar Admissions Committee 
- Past Chair, ADR Section
- Member, Securities Section and Judicial Selection Committee
- CMBA Leadership Academy 2018
- Trial Counsel, 1999-2000
- Certified Grievance Committee, 2000-2003

Independent Broker Dealer Consortium
- Member, IBDC Alliance

Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys
- Alternative Dispute Resolution and Business & Commercial Litigation Committees

Defense Research Institute
- Alternate Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation Committees

Guardian ad Litem for Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
- Domestic Relations and Juvenile Divisions (1996-2009)

Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
- Member, Compliance & Legal Division

National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP)
- Member

Arbitrator, FINRA

Community:

LifeAct
- Board of Directors, Governance and Advocacy Committees

The Leprechaun Foundation
- Prior General Counsel, Treasurer, Executive Board Member

The Ohio Center for Law Related Education's High School Mock Trial Competition
- Volunteer Judge

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Cleveland High School Mock Trial Competition
- Attorney Advisor

SIFMA Foundation, InvestWrite Student Essay Competition
- Volunteer Judge

The Cuyahoga County Guardian ad Litem Project
- Member 2008-2009, Advisory Board; Communications and Volunteer/Grant Committees

Results

For a more complete list of trial results, please contact attorney.

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Speaking Engagements

Insights

Publications

Education

J.D., Cleveland State University College of Law, 1996

B.A., The Ohio State University, 1993

Admissions

  • State of Ohio, 1996
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2000
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 1998
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 2003
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 2012
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, 2021
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