Experience

Joe’s experience includes:

• Representing an equipment leasing company through numerous reorganization proceedings of large health care systems throughout the country;

• Successful prosecution through trial verdict on subcontractor's multi-million dollar mechanic's lien and breach of contract claims against a national construction management company;

• Recovery of punitive award and other compensatory damages on claims for violation of bankruptcy stay protections, and preventing buy-out of individual debtor's business interests;

• Representing a national building product supplier through the liquidation of one of its customers, resulting in substantial recovery on claims for reclamation of goods, administrative priorities, payment surety bonds, and breach of contract;

• Serving as special counsel to Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees in orchestrating court-approved auction sales of family-owned commercial and residential real estate;

• Defending an individual debtor in an adversary proceeding contesting discharge of a multi-million dollar fraud claim, which resulted in a reported trial verdict for his client;

• Workout and restructuring of a non-profit organization in lieu of real estate foreclosure and insolvency proceedings;

• Representing an individual to discharge of his debts under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, resolving more than a million dollars in unsecured debt for pennies on the dollar;

• Handling collection actions, foreclosures, replevins, and bankruptcy representation for local and national financial institutions;

• Regular representation of debtors in proceedings under Chapter 7, 11, and 13; and

• Litigating stay relief motions, lien avoidance actions, claim objections, and preferential and avoidable transfer claims in bankruptcy proceedings.