Joseph E. Samuel, Jr. is an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department, where he represents clients in a diverse range of industries with a practice focused on appellate, intellectual property, and complex commercial litigation matters. Additionally, Joe has litigated cases against governmental agencies in specialized courts, including the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in its original jurisdiction. Joe has experience at all stages of litigation in state and federal court, from the filing of initial pleadings, to handling complicated discovery issues, and through resolution and appeal.
Joe also advises clients on Pennsylvania election law issues and has worked as a political consultant for campaigns at the federal, state, and local level. In 2016, he helped oversee the successful disqualification of a congressional candidate in one of Pennsylvania’s largest petition challenges in Commonwealth Court.
Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Joe was a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Elizabeth T. Hey in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He also worked as a Certified Legal Intern in Villanova University’s Federal Tax Clinic where he represented taxpayers in IRS assessment and collections matters, including cases before the United States Tax Court.
Joseph earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was a member of the editorial board of the Villanova Law Review, he completed a Litigation Concentration, and he served as a teaching assistant for civil procedure, property, and legal writing. Joseph received his B.A. degree, cum laude, in Political Science and Spanish from West Chester University.
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Bankruptcy Judge in Eastern District of New York Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Five Defendants Represented by Montgomery McCracken
Montgomery McCracken attorneys Edward Schnitzer and Joseph Samuel represented five preference defendants in adversary proceedings brought by the Litigation Administrator in the Décor Holding, Inc. bankruptcy pending in the Eastern […]
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Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Greenlights Class Claims Against Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and Orders Them to Pay Damages and Attorneys’ Fees
On May 27, 2022, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court published two related opinions permitting damages claims to proceed against the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) and ordering them to pay petitioners’ […]
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Quinn Emanuel Can’t Escape Insys Ch. 11 Suit Over Payments
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP can’t dodge a suit filed in Insys Therapeutics Inc.’s Ch. 11 case over $90,000 paid to the firm just before the bankruptcy filing, a Delaware […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Fair Use Defense Under Copyright Law as Tech Innovators Win Significant Victory in Google v. Oracle
On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court held that tech giant Google, which used code from the Oracle-owned computer programming language “Java” to create the interface for Android […]
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