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James Joseph is of counsel at Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP. His broad civil litigation experience includes such areas as attorney discipline, business disputes, corporation law, professional malpractice, trust and estates, and zoning. Among other recent matters, Mr. Joseph represented the Community Colleges of Chicago in a successful malpractice against its former accounting firm, resolving in the Colleges' favor a matter of first impression before the Illinois Supreme Court. See Board of Trustees of Community College Dist. No. 508, County of Cook v. Coopers & Lybrand, 208 Ill.2d 259, 803 N.E.2d 460 (2003). In 1998, Mr. Joseph helped found the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, a pioneering legal clinic at the University of Chicago Law School that advised low- to moderate-income entrepreneurs. He served as Assistant Director of the clinic for two years, and simultaneously held an appointment as a Lecturer at Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Joseph is actively involved in Chicago theater, and is a founding trustee of the Schadenfreude Theater Company. He began his legal career at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, and before joining Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP was associated with Hedlund & Hanley, LLC. He is a 1991 graduate (with honors) of Cornell University, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a recipient of the Thomas R. Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy. | 