Admitted to bar, 1980, Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia

Martindale-Hubble Law Directory rating: “AV”

Education: State University of New York at New Paltz; State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A., with honors, 1976); St. Louis University (J.D., 1980). Phi Alpha Delta. Member, St. Louis University Law Journal, 1979-1980. Director, Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, Inc. 1998-2003

Member: State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association (Forum on Franchising).

Practice Areas: Franchise Law and Corporate Law.

Phone: (678) 775-3545
Email: jgottlieb@cgpglaw.com


Joe was born in New York City and has lived and practiced law in Atlanta since 1980. Joe received his Bachelors of Arts degree with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1976. He attended St. Louis University School of Law where he was a member of the St. Louis University Law Journal and received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1980.

Joe practiced law in both the public and private sectors before joining the predecessor of Cohen Goldstein Port & Gottlieb, LLP in January 1990.  His practice is focused on the areas of transactional franchise and corporate law.  Mr. Gottlieb’s franchise law practice on behalf of franchisors includes the representation of national hotel/motel companies, mid-sized and start-up franchisors for which he has prepared and registered offering circulars, franchise agreements, and the ancillary documents required to launch and sustain their franchise systems.  Joe’s franchisee clients include master licensees, area developers as well as single and multi-unit owners.  He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Franchising.

Joe has been a presenter at a Continuing Legal Education Seminar sponsored by the State Bar of Georgia and has appeared on WPBA Channel 30, a PBS affiliate, in July 1997 on a program devoted to bankruptcy law.

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