Attorney
Area of Focus
Additional Services
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
- Business Transactions & Corporate Counseling
- Construction Contracting & Disputes
- Environmental
- Clean Air Act
- Commercial Transactions and Property Acquisition
- Compliance Counseling and Risk Management
- Environmental Litigation
- Green Technology
- Health and Safety
- International Environmental Law
- Shale Gas
- Site Remediation and Brownfield Development
- Solid and Hazardous Waste
- Underground Storage Tank Regulation
- Water Law
Education
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, JD, 1973
Kent State University, BA, 1970
Bar Admissions
Ohio State Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of Ohio
U.S. District Courts for the following:
Northern District of Ohio
Southern District of Ohio
Central District of Illinois
Western District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 4th, 6th, & 7th Circuits
Joseph T. Dattilo Of Counsel
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- Area of FocusEnvironmentalClean Air ActCommercial Transactions and Property AcquisitionCompliance Counseling and Risk ManagementEnvironmental LitigationGreen TechnologyHealth and SafetyInternational Environmental LawShale GasSite Remediation and Brownfield DevelopmentSolid and Hazardous WasteUnderground Storage Tank RegulationWater Law
- Education
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, JD, 1973
Kent State University, BA, 1970
- Bar Admissions
Ohio State Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of Ohio
U.S. District Courts for the following:
Northern District of Ohio
Southern District of Ohio
Central District of Illinois
Western District of PennsylvaniaU.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 4th, 6th, & 7th Circuits
Biography
Joe focuses his practice on counseling privately owned companies as General Counsel and upon handling complex business and product litigation for publicly and privately owned companies of all sizes. Prior to joining Brouse as Shareholder in 1999, Joe served as General Counsel for several units of two Cleveland area Fortune 500 companies and later served as Senior Counsel for BP America where he was responsible for both trying and managing complex business and product litigation and other litigation management with an $18 million budget.
Joe has significant experience with general corporate matters serving as General Counsel for all phases of a business entity including mergers and acquisitions and advising companies as to how to comply with consumer statues in Ohio.
Throughout his law career, Joe has been heavily involved in the areas of anti-trust, product liability, construction, contract and environmental litigation, consumer law and appellate practice. He has experience resolving disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation. Joe served as a mediator for the Cuyahoga County Court of common Pleas. His litigation experience includes acting as lead counsel in major and complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He began his law practice with a major law firm in Toledo, Ohio, in 1973.
Joe has been selected multiple years by Ohio Super Lawyers® for Business Litigation through a peer and achievement-based review conducted by the research team at Super Lawyers, a service of Thomson Reuters legal division.
Joe is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubbell.
- Biography
Joe focuses his practice on counseling privately owned companies as General Counsel and upon handling complex business and product litigation for publicly and privately owned companies of all sizes. Prior to joining Brouse as Shareholder in 1999, Joe served as General Counsel for several units of two Cleveland area Fortune 500 companies and later served as Senior Counsel for BP America where he was responsible for both trying and managing complex business and product litigation and other litigation management with an $18 million budget.
Joe has significant experience with general corporate matters serving as General Counsel for all phases of a business entity including mergers and acquisitions and advising companies as to how to comply with consumer statues in Ohio.Throughout his law career, Joe has been heavily involved in the areas of anti-trust, product liability, construction, contract and environmental litigation, consumer law and appellate practice. He has experience resolving disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation. Joe served as a mediator for the Cuyahoga County Court of common Pleas. His litigation experience includes acting as lead counsel in major and complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He began his law practice with a major law firm in Toledo, Ohio, in 1973.
Joe has been selected multiple years by Ohio Super Lawyers® for Business Litigation through a peer and achievement-based review conducted by the research team at Super Lawyers, a service of Thomson Reuters legal division.
Joe is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubbell.
- Professional & Civic Activities
- Joe has served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Bar Association Northern District of Ohio Chapter. He previously served as president, vice president and secretary for the Northern District Chapter and also served as the chapter's national delegate in Washington, D.C. during 2004 - 2005. As a former President of the Northern District Chapter, Joe is a lifetime member of the Board of Directors.
- Joe is a Life Member of the Sixth and Eighth circuit Judicial Conference. He is a Master Bencher and previously served as Chair for Continuing Legal Education for the Judge Manos Inn of Court.
- Joe is a member of the Akron, Cleveland Metropolitan, Ohio State and Federal Bar Associations.
- Joe has and continues to participate in many community and civic activities, including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, having served on the board of its Buckeye Ohio Chapter.
- Joe was appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court to serve on The Board of Bar Examiners from 2003 to 2013.
- Representative Engagements
- Obtained defense verdict for a consumer products manufacturer in burn case involving three children in Newark, New Jersey
- Successfully defended BP Amoco in a federal court action brought by 11 sellers of ethanol who, under the Sherman Act and Clayton Act, alleged conspiracy to eliminate competition
- Successfully represented Fortune 100 companies in Federal and state courts involving breach of contracts in the areas of construction, labor and supply, and coal
- Successfully represented a Fortune 100 company in state court in a major product liability case involving alleged asbestos exposure
- Successfully represented a Fortune 100 company in state court alleging environmental contamination of adjacent property
- Successfully represented subsidiary of a major corporation that manufactured products containing asbestos against claims brought in state and federal courts in Texas by thousands of plaintiffs alleging asbestosis against many defendants
- Successfully defended steel building manufacturers in various federal and state product liability matters
- Successfully represented a major corporation in the construction of its world headquarters building and the litigation and claims that followed as to delays and cost overruns
- Successfully represented a major appliance manufacturer in state court in New Jersey; obtained defense verdict
- Acting as mediation counsel for Major U.S. manufacturer of consumer products, has successfully settled cases without litigation expense
- Distinctions
- Cleveland’s Legal Leaders™ – Top Rated Lawyer in Commercial Litigation, General Practice, and Litigation — 2013
