Joseph Grant

Associate Professor of Law

Ph: 614-236-6783 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 527 | jgrant@law.capital.edu

Professor Grant joined Capital in 2008. He teaches Business Associations and Estates and Trusts. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Appalachian School of Law, and as a Lecturer in Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Professor Grant has taught courses on Secured Transactions, Estate Planning (including Gift and Estate Taxation), Federal Income Taxation, Legal Process, and Legal Research and Writing. His areas of research and writing include business entity choice and succession planning, taxation of trusts and individuals, estate planning, technology and the law, and issues of diversity in the legal profession.


Career Highlights

  • Assistant Professor of Law, Appalachian School of Law
  • Lecturer in Law, West Virginia University College of Law
  • Associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Groups, Thompson Hine LLP (Cleveland, Ohio Office)
  • Associate in the Corporate and Labor and Employment Practice Groups, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP (Cleveland, Ohio Office)
  • Private Practice as a Solo Practioner and Partner in Cleveland, Ohio focusing on estate planning, business law, real estate transactions, employment discrimination, criminal defense, and general civil litigation

 

 

Selected Publications

  • Shattering and Moving Beyond the Gutenberg Paradigm: The Dawn of the Electronic Will, 42 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM (Forthcoming Fall 2008).
  • Joseph Karl Grant on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (Lexis/Nexis Expert Commentaries 2008)
  • Joseph Karl Grant on Family Limited Partnerships (Lexis/Nexis Expert Commentaries 2008)
  • In the Shadow of Brown: On African-American Perspectives and Diversity in the Legal Profession, AFRICALOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (September/October 2005)

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Courses

  • Trusts and Estates
  • Business Associations

Education

  • J.D., Duke University School of Law
  • A.B., Brown University
  • Certificate, University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College

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Faculty

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