Joseph T. Mccormick Iii Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA

Greater Seattle Area

Spearheaded judicial litigation team within practice group: solely responsible for all contested litigated actions within practice group, with file count varying between 90 and 120 discrete matters.Design and implement internal staff procedures for managing all aspects of litigation and train non-attorney staff.Personally handle all aspects of civil court.

Greater Seattle Area

• Representation of individual and corporate clients on landlord/tenant, real estate, contract, title, creditor's rights litigation, and intellectual property matters
• Contract Attorney for Robert Half Legal Services

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Represented and advised corporations in litigated financial services, creditors’ rights, and real property matters in trial court and appellate jurisdictions.
• Courtroom experience: First chair trial attorney to judgment for over high volume of finance litigation trials and hearings.
• Extensive motion practice: prepare, argue, and defend against dispositive and discovery motions of varying complexity.
• Evaluated high volume of defensive pleadings and draft responses.
• Responsible for all litigated issues in ten distinct counties.
• Established strong working relationships with judges and judicial staff in assigned counties.

Wesley Chapel, FL

• Represented and advised individual and corporate clients in areas of practice including consumer bankruptcy, FDCPA litigation, insurance coverage, personal injury, extra-contractual liability, family law, and probate.
• Extensive state and federal motion practice.
• Prepared documents for transactional real estate and estate planning matters.
• Performed consultations with prospective clients for a wide variety of civil matters.
• Reviewed, analyzed, and propounded discovery requests and responses.

Riverview, FL

• Researched, drafted, and argued pleadings and motions in uncontested and litigated consumer bankruptcy cases and real estate litigation, transactional real estate, probate, and family matters.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in financial services litigation.
• Prepared documents for transactional real estate matters and estate planning.
• Appellate practice: researched and prepared appellate brief in a guardianship case.
• Pioneered firm’s expansion of practice areas to include FDCPA and FCCPA claims.
• Argued oral and written motions in Circuit and Federal courts.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Reviewed large volume of incoming transferred financial services files for completeness, compliance with law and local rules, and accuracy.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Assisted equity partner in researching, drafting, and editing pleadings, discovery requests and responses, professional correspondence, notices, stipulations, and legal memoranda on behalf of creditors in litigated civil cases, including contested commercial foreclosures, commercial bankruptcies, and contract disputes.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Drafted motions, notices, correspondence, and proposed orders and judgments for large volume of uncontested financial services cases.
• Managed incoming legal documents and correspondence.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Drafted motions, notices, correspondence, and proposed orders and judgments for uncontested financial services cases.
• Researched property tax liens for representation of creditors.
• Managed incoming legal documents and correspondence.

Juris Doctor, Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta - member Bruce R. Jacob Criminal Appellate Inn of Court• Honor Roll for four semesters • Highest.

Master Of Arts, History

Activities and Societies: Leadership House; Golden Key National Honor Society• Presented original research at the Hawaii International.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: • Charter Member of USF Leadership House • Golden Key International Honor Society • USF Honors Program •.