Joe completed high school in Sweetwater in 1978. Joe received his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, IL, in three and a half years, continuing his final semester at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and received his law degree in two and a half years from Texas Tech University in 1985. In that same year, he was admitted to practice in the State Bar of Texas. Joe is admitted to practice in all state courts in Texas, before the Texas Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Joe’s primary practice areas focus on wrongful death, personal injury, insurance, collections, construction, and general civil litigation – both plaintiff and defense.