Biography

Joe Pinto is an associate in the Business Litigation and Insurance Recovery Practice Groups in Haynes Boone’s New York office.  

Joe advises clients through all phases of litigation and works closely with clients to align litigation strategy with broader business goals. Joe’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in federal and state court, including contract and business disputes, and insurance recovery in a wide array of industries and sectors. In his insurance recovery practice, Joe primarily represents corporate policyholders in complex insurance recovery litigation and coverage for various toxic tort and environmental claims. Joe has recovered millions in recoveries for his clients under a variety of insurance products and contracts. 

Joe maintains an active pro-bono practice, with an emphasis on representing clients in divorce and child custody suits, disputes involving domestic violence, and inmates appealing a capital punishment conviction.   

Joe is admitted to practice in New York and Texas.

 
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  • (N.Y. Sup. Ct.) Represent specialty pharmaceutical company in $7 million international dispute with investor over breach of contract related to the development of pharmaceutical for the treatment of COVID-19.
  • (Harris County) Obtained summary judgment in favor of real estate broker based on the statute of frauds and justification on claims related to the sale of real property.

Education

J.D., Emory University School of Law, 2022, with honors

B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2019, Phi Alpha Theta; cum laude

Clerkships

Extern to the Honorable Stephen Dillard, Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia, 2021

Admissions

Texas

New York

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas