Joe represents individuals and firms that are active in the real estate industry (such as developers, architects, lenders, and real estate investors), in addition to institutions that are not engaged in the real estate business, but that have real estate needs, such as the building or purchasing of a headquarters building or the leasing or subleasing of office space.

Joe is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (for which he formerly served on the board of governors), the American Bar Association, as well as the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Joe has been recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in Washington, DC by Chambers USA, International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Bloomberg BNA Real Estate Law and Industry Report and served several years as a contributing editor of the Legal Times. He is a frequent lecturer and author of legal articles.

Joe has a passion for opera which extends beyond his having served for more than 20 years as pro bono general counsel of the Summer Opera Theater Company in Washington, DC. Since he has little talent and a voice that cannot carry a tune even in the shower, he has appeared as a “supernumerary” (or an “extra”) in three roles in Puccini’s Tosca in performances by the New York City Opera in 1981. In Washington, DC’s Summer Opera Theater Company, in 1997 and 2007, Joe disguised himself as a Swiss guard in a red, yellow, and blue tunic in Act I, as one of the group of firing squad soldiers that shoots the lead tenor in Act III, and as the Cardinal in Act I.