Joseph N. Tucker

Biography

Joe is an experienced commercial litigator who serves on the Firm's Board of Directors and as also serves as the Firm's Deputy General Counsel. He focuses his practice on complex business litigation, banking litigation, consumer finance litigation, and class action defense. Joe is licensed to practice law in Florida, Kentucky and Michigan, is admitted to practice in 12 federal district courts, and he regularly arbitrates claims before JAMS and AAA.

Joe handles a wide variety of individual and class action matters at the trial court and appellate levels involving contract and lease disputes, coal supply agreements, force majeure provisions, non-competition employment cases, banking litigation, creditors' rights, FDCPA/FCRA/TCPA compliance and FDCPA/FCRA/TCPA defense litigation

Joe has appeared before the Sixth and Eleventh circuit courts of appeal and in federal and state courts in California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia. He has also arbitrated complex commercial cases in numerous states in the southeast, and he has handled nearly 500 consumer arbitrations before the AAA/JAMS on behalf of several consumer finance and FinTech clients. He has handled multi-million dollar serial litigation and class action lawsuits involving hundreds of parties and witnesses, and also provides advice and litigation services to a variety of businesses on general commercial matters, including the UCC, lender liability claims, commercial workouts, and close corporation shareholder disputes.

Education

  • University of Florida Levin College of Law  (J.D., with honors, 1991)
    • University of Florida Law Review, articles editor
  • Florida State University  (B.A., 1988)

Bar Admissions

  • Kentucky
  • Florida
  • Michigan

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Affiliations/Memberships

  • Kentucky Bar Association
  • Florida Bar Association
  • Louisville Bar Association
  • Michigan Bar Association
  • ACA International

Distinctions

  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
  • Kentucky Super Lawyers® 
  • "Top Lawyers” by Louisville Magazine (2016)