Named in the Best Lawyers in America, Joe's practice focuses on business, tax planning and succession planning issues, particularly for closely held, family-owned businesses and professional medical and legal practices. Joe has an extensive employee benefits practice and drafts retirement and welfare plans, assists clients with respect to cafeteria plans, group life insurance plans, self-insured medical plan and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, such as rabbi trusts, secular trusts, and severance pay plans. An Alabama Super Lawyer and the 2012 Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Birmingham. He is a member of the Birmingham Bar Association, past Chairman of the Alabama State Bar Association Section of the Taxation and a member of the American Bar Association and its section of Taxation and the Employee Benefits Committee.