Joseph D Carney
Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC
- Biography
A highly experienced attorney with a broad spectrum of legal expertise and extensive track record of success in Securities, Corporate, Business, Real Estate, and Construction Law. Strengths include specialized knowledge of broker-dealers, investment managers, investment companies, insurance securities, investment advisers. Extensive experience with private placements, entrepreneurial ventures, venture capital, and private equity. Helps starts-ups to $Billion dollar entities with financing rounds, offerings, and planning. Additional qualifications include accounting investigations and related securities investigations and litigation. Corporate Law skills in M & A, financing transactions. Extensive real estate skills as counsel and as owner, in the acquisition, development, construction, redevelopment, rehabilitation of real estate of multiple types. Construction law experience. Proven analytical, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. Mediation, Arbitration, and Alternative Resolution Dispute Skills. Cybersecurity law, breach response, consulting for Cybersecurity. Business, Real Estate, Financing and Securities lawyer for 40 years. CWRU Law JD. Georgetown Law, LLM. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC 5 years. Calfee, Halter & Griswold 10 years. Brennan, Manna & Diamond 4 years. Private practice 20+ years
- Practice Areas
- Securities Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Health Care Law
- Agricultural Law
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Gov & Administrative Law
- Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Education Law
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants’ Rights
- Municipal Law
- Fees
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Free Consultation
Will provide about 15 minutes to talk about your issue. I often have answers for your questions as I have been working in my areas 40 years. - Credit Cards Accepted
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Contingent Fees
These are rare cases but exists. Normally there is also a very small hourly component such as $50 hr. But contingency is more where liability is quite clear but getting to the amounts and solving collectability is an issue. -
Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Fees are negotiable. Contingency fees are rare; but will take partial hourly and partial contingent or can be paid from transactions. In some cases will take fees via ITEX barter dollars.
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
- Since 1982
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- Languages
- French:
Spoken
- Professional Experience
- Member
- Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC
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2017 –
Current
- Continued Joseph D. Carney’s practice in own firm.
- Of counsel; Partner and Member
- Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC
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2013 –
2017
- Recruited to join BMD; first transition as Of Counsel; then Partner and Member; determined to return to own practice. Continue to work with BMD on multiple projects and continue to refer work to and get work from them.
- Member
- Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC
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1994 –
2013
- Founder of Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC in January, 1994. See www.jcarneylegal.com for further details.
- Partner
- Calfee Halter & Griswold
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1987 –
1994
- Partner, practicing securities regulation and litigation, corporate law, real estate law, agriculture law, regulatory law, financing law of various types.
- Associate
- Calfee Halter & Griswold
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1984 –
1987
- Associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold. See www.calfee.com.
- Special Counsel, Office of General Counsel
- Securities and Exchange Commission
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1983 –
1982
- Special Counsel, Enforcement and Disclosure Policy, Office of General Counsel
- Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Enforcement
- Securities and Exchange Commisson
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1980 –
1982
- Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Investment Management
- Securities and Exchange Commission
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1979 –
1980
- Attorney, Office of Investment Company Regulation, Division of Investment Management
- Securities and Exchange Commission
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1977 –
1979
- Education
- Georgetown University Law Center
- LL.M. (1982) | LLM in Securities Regulation
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1980
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1982 -
- Boston University
- M.S. (1977) | Public Communications
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1974
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1977 -
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- J.D. (1977) | Law School first degree
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1974
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1977 -
- Boston University
- B.A. (1974) | American Political and Economic History
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1970
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1974 - Honors: Cum Laude
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- Awards
- Award to Federal Bar Association Younger Lawyers Division while JDC was Chairman of YLD of FBA
- American Bar Association
- Professional Associations
- Ohio State Bar
- Member
- Current
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- Akron Bar Association
- Member
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2013 –
Current -
- Cleveland Metropolitian Bar Association
- Past Chairman of Securities Law Section
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2012 –
Current -
- American Bar Association
- Multiple positions in Committees and Sub Comittees
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1977 –
Current -
- Federal Bar Association
- Past President of Cleveland Chapter; Past National Chairman, Younger Lawyers Divisions
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1977 –
Current -
- Cleveland Bar Association
- Past Chairman of Securities Law Section
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1984 –
2012 - Activities: Cleveland Bar Association became Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
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- Publications
- Many Publications
- Websites & Blogs
- Website
- Website
- Contact & Address
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