Joseph West is a partner in the firm's Trial Practice Group and practices in the area of complex litigation, handling a variety of matters in areas including, but not limited to, class actions, insurance litigation, commercial litigation, zoning and land use, catastrophic injury, products liability, and labor and employment. Mr. West is also a member of the firm’s Partners Board and serves as the firm’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, in which capacity he manages Duane Morris’ comprehensive firm-wide diversity and inclusion program and he chairs the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Consulting Practice. Mr. West advises domestic and global companies on a wide array of legal issues, and also represents, trains and advises numerous associations and companies, including publicly traded companies and their boards and CEOs, on issues related to diversity and inclusion and the compliance, risk management and corporate strategies associated with these issues. He is an award-winning, nationally recognized subject matter authority in the field of diversity and inclusion, having worked, lectured and written extensively on diversity and inclusion issues impacting businesses and the legal profession. His previous roles include Lecturer at George Mason Antonin Scalia School of Law on corporate leadership and diversity, President and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Associate General Counsel – Head of Global Outside Counsel Management at Walmart Stores Inc. and member of Walmart’s Class Action/Complex Litigation Group, Assistant General Counsel in the Litigation Group of Entergy Corporation, and partner in several law firms in Louisiana.
Listed skills include Diversity And Inclusion, Litigation, Social Media, Public Speaking, and 20 others.