Education

LL.B. Hastings College of the Law, University of California, 1964

A.B. Stanford University, 1960

Bar Admissions

California

Court Admissions

all courts of the State of California

U.S. District Court, Eastern District

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Affiliations

American College of Trial Lawyers

State Bar of California, Litigation Section

Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Award, California State Bar Litigation Section, 2001

Distinguished Lawyer of the Year by the Sacramento County Bar Association, 2001

Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court, Bencher and former member of Executive Committee

Alumnus of the Year, Sacramento Chapter of the Hastings Alumni Association, 2002

Best Lawyers in America, 1993-2007

Northern California Super Lawyers, 2004-2008

Sacramento Host Committee, Chair, 2008-2009

Former Chairman: Lawyer Delegation, Eastern District of California Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference

Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization (President, 1990-1991)

American Leadership Forum, Senior Fellow

Sacramento County Law Library Foundation, Founding Member

Joseph S. Genshlea

Contact information:

Founding Shareholder

jgenshlea@weintraub.com

T: 916.558.6020

F: 916.446.1611

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Practice Areas

• Litigation

Joe is a founding shareholder of the firm. Joe received his undergraduate degree from Stanford in 1960 and his law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1964. He served for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas J. MacBride, Judge, United States District Court of the Eastern District of California. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1961-1967.

With 40 years of practice before the federal and California trial and appellate courts, Joe has handled many complex business jury trials and is acknowledged as one of the foremost business litigators in the state. His litigation practice has focused on commercial lending, real estate transactions, intellectual property and business dissolutions. Joe has successfully represented financial institutions in lender liability cases, commercial lending and related matters, and handled a variety of securities litigation, shareholder derivative suits, copyright infringement matters, real estate litigation, partnership and corporate dissolutions, accounting malpractice, contract disputes and fraud claims, to name a few.

Joe has lectured for the Business Litigation Section of the State Bar of California, as well as for a variety of Continuing Education of the Bar courses related to litigation. Joe served for many years as a panelist with local federal judges conducting courses on recent developments in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and local rules for practitioners in the Eastern District. Joe conducts seminars on Commercial Lending Litigation and lectures to groups such as the Sacramento Young Lawyers Association, the Business Litigation and Business Counseling Sections of the Sacramento County Bar Association, as well as the Sonoma and San Mateo County Bars.

A Sacramento native, Joe has strong ties to the area and places great significance on local civic activities through his involvement in area non-profit groups. He is a past member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Valley Vision, a non-profit dedicated to promoting regional thinking, and is a past Chairman and a former member of the Board of its Mountain Valley Chapter. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Special Olympics of Northern California, as well as a member of the Sacramento Host Committee. He is also a co-chair of the Gold Rush Park Foundation and a member of the executive committee of Protect and Defend, a public education program.

Joe served on the Board of Directors of KVIE Channel 6 (public television), the Sacramento Symphony, the League to Save Lake Tahoe, Diocesan Catholic Youth Organization and was a co-chair of the Sacramento Regional Economic Forum. He is a former Trustee of the Mercy Hospital Foundation and a founding member of the Board of Directors of Gateway Foundation, a home for alcoholic women. Additionally, Joe has twice served as a Trustee of Christian Brothers High School.

Joe also placed 5,411th in the 83rd annual running of the Boston Marathon.