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Joe is known as a problem-solving lawyer who combines his strengths in legal analysis and advocacy to zealously pursue and efficiently achieve clients’ goals. He listens closely to his clients, learning their business and concerns, then takes a disciplined and tactical approach to developing the best solution.Most of the legal issues Joe addresses stem from a lawsuit or a dispute, but he also advises clients on avoiding risk or future problems in transactional or planning matters. Joe focuses his practice on business and real estate law; he has successfully handled cases involving contracts, creditors' rights, construction, eviction, insurance, title, trusts and zoning. He has also dealt with dozens of related issues involving purchase agreements, boundary disputes, marketability of titles, legal access, collections, leasing disputes, unlawful detainers, construction contracts and defects, insurance coverage, land use, planning, quieting titles, partitions, adverse claims, tax-increment financing, mechanics’ liens, security interests, mortgages and foreclosures, workouts, bankruptcy and equity stripping. Aggressive enforcement of clients’ rights is one of the driving forces in Joe’s resolution of personal-injury and aviation-related disputes. In addition to successfully litigating and trying many aviation cases, he provides legal education on aviation-law and tort-law topics. Clients he has represented in civil claims and administrative actions include families of survivors and victims of airplane accidents; aircraft owners, pilots and operators; and aviation facilities.Joe is a member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County bar associations and the Building Owners and Managers Association. | 