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Primary Office
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- Illinois Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Firm Involvement
- Past Chair, Real Estate Practice
Degrees
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School
- M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business
- B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh
- Phi Beta Kappa
- University of Oslo, Norway
Honors & Awards
- Rated AV® PreeminentTM, 5.0 out of 5, AV® Preeminent TM, and BV® DistinguishedTM by Martindale-Hubbell®
- Named to the Illinois Super Lawyer list, 2005-2007, 2010-2018
- ADL 2001 Community Service Award
Teaching Experience
- Joel was appointed by the Center for International Legal Studies as a visiting professor at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he delivered several lectures about U.S. corporate law in 2016.