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Joseph B. Jaap
email: jjaap@bpbslaw.com
direct dial: 513-533-2037
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Joe assists clients in developing and implementing legal strategies to avoid and resolve disputes, and to achieve their goals in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate. This includes representing and counseling clients regarding acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing, condominium property development and conversions, condominium management and homeowner associations, construction contracting and construction project management, construction dispute resolution, mechanic's liens, and environmental compliance.
Joe also provides general business representation advising clients about business formation, incorporation and joint ventures, contract negotiations, and public bidding. He helps clients resolve issues related to intellectual property, clearance and registration of state and federal trademarks and copyrights, trademark and copyright infringement claim resolution, intellectual property asset transfers and licensing, trade secret protection, and electronic commerce including Internet and domain name issues.
As the BPBS community service coordinator, Joe helps BPBS help others in the community. He has tutored and served as BPBS tutor coordinator for Parker School with the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, and served as job shadowing coordinator for students from Taft and Withrow High Schools. He is active at his church in youth ministry and youth education, served as a trustee, and worked in various church committees and activities, including a church remodeling project. He also has served on the board of his neighborhood homeowner association.
A Cincinnati native, after graduating from Purdue with degrees in engineering, Joe served on active duty as an officer and engineer on Navy nuclear-powered ships. He served aboard a submarine, cruiser, and aircraft carrier, and he remains active with other Navy veterans, serving as secretary and legislative liaison on the executive board of the Cincinnati Council of the Navy League. Joe is married, with two grown children and one still in high school.
General Business Services
Real Estate
Construction Law
Community Association Law
Title Insurance
Intellectual Property
Trademarks
Copyrights
State of Ohio
U.S. District Court
Southern District of Ohio
University of Michigan Law School
J.D., cum laude
Order of the Coif
- academic honor society
Purdue University
B.S., M.S. Engineering
Private Cost Recovery under CERCLA for Hazardous Substance Cleanup: A Last Resort
N. Ky. Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 2,
co-author
Reported Cases - Ohio First District Court of Appeals
92 Ohio App. 3d 98, mechanic's
lien case
107 Ohio App. 3d 321, real estate
registered land case
Officer, United States Navy
Nuclear Propulsion Engineer
Surface Warfare Officer
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Tutor Coordinator - Parker School
Job Shadow Coordinator - Taft HS,
Withrow HS
Navy League of the U.S.
- Cincinnati Council
Executive Board, Secretary
Legislative Liaison
Cincinnati Bar Association
Martindale-Hubbard
AV Peer Review Rated
Professional Engineer
State of Ohio (1986-2007)
Frequent speaker at Construction Law and Mechanic's Lien Seminars for continuing legal education for attorneys and for construction professionals.