Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Joe Finley has substantial experience handling complicated litigation matters in federal and state courts. Over the course of his career, he has represented corporate officers and directors in shareholder derivative and class action lawsuits involving allegations of stock options backdating, securities fraud, and corporate governance issues, as well as represented companies and board committees in internal investigations and SEC matters. He also has handled complex commercial disputes for clients in the automotive, electronics, software, building products, health care, and radio industries. He has extensive trial experience, having represented the government as lead counsel in a dozen felony jury trials and more than 50 fully contested or partially contested bench trials and sentencing hearings in military courts. As lead counsel, he has successfully represented clients in arbitrations and hearings for injunctive relief as well as hearings on motions for summary judgment and other significant pretrial issues.

Before attending law school, Joe was an account specialist at the national public relations firm of Porter Novelli in Los Angeles, where he worked on public affairs issues involving California’s aerospace industry, several pharmaceutical companies, and the fiberglass manufacturing industry.

Joe has lectured before The Florida Bar Military Affairs Committee and has served as an instructor at the United States Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island on the subject of pretrial litigation in death penalty cases.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement

Representative Cases

• Anderson Broadcasting Co. v. Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc., Civil Action No. A1-01-011
• BlueLinx Corporation v. Guardian Fiberglass, Inc. et al., Civil Action File No. 2006CV114236
• Chaney v. Online Interactive, Inc. et al., Civil Action File No. 98-CV-03452
• City of Pontiac General Employees' Retirement System at al. v. Langone at al., C.A. No. 2006-cv-122302
• Focas, Inc. v. Florida Power Corporation, Civil Action File No. 98-CV-822-CC (N.D. Ga.)
• In re Caremark Rx, Inc. Stock Option Litigation, Case No. 06 C 1329
• In re Fuqua Industries, Inc., Shareholders Litigation, Consolidated Civil Action File No. 11974 (Del. Ch., New Castle Cty.)
• In re Mayflower Corporation
• IVI Checkmate, Inc. v. Samsung Display Devices Co. Ltd.
• National Data Corp. v. MedE America, Inc et al ., Civil Action File No. 99-5941-8
• Peters v. Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc., Civil Action No. C5-01-492 - 3d Jud. Dist., Minn.; Civil Action No. 01-CV-1269
• Southern Wabash Communications et al. v. ABC Radio, Inc., d/b/a ESPN Radio, Cumulus Broadcasting LLC, et al., Case No.: 3:05-0339
• Triad Broadcasting Co. LLC v. Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc., Civil Action No. NO. 4 01- CV472-WS/WCS
• Arbitrations Related to Chapter 11 Reorganization
• Shareholder litigation

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Capital Markets, Class Actions, Commodities, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Foreign Investment, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Private Placements, Public Offerings, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia

Education

• Emory University

Published Works

• The Pitfalls of Contingent Public Financing in Congressional Campaign Spending Reform, 44 Emory L. J. 735, 1995
• Crack Charging in Los Angeles: Do Statistics Tell the Whole Truth About ‘Selective Prosecution’, 6 Fed. Sent. Rep. 113, 1993

Address

1420 Peachtree Street, N.E.,
Suite 800
Atlanta, GA 30309-3053

Phones

1.404.581.8409 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.404.581.8330 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com