A highly regarded business trial lawyer and counselor, Joseph B. Cicero is a partner at Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP. From the firm’s offices in Wilmington, Delaware, he provides astute representation to clients throughout Delaware, as well as in other parts of the country.

Mr. Cicero majored in classics as an undergraduate at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 2000. He then pursued his legal education at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, DE. During law school, Mr. Cicero was an editor on the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and Wolcott Clerk for Justice Randy J. Holland on the Delaware Supreme Court before being awarded his Juris Doctor cum laude and being inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2003.

Prior to joining his current firm in June 2012, Mr. Cicero was a shareholder in a global Am Law 100 firm. Throughout his career, he has handled a variety of complex trials at the state and federal levels, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Some of Mr. Cicero’s representative cases have included breaches of fiduciary duties, shareholder derivative lawsuits, fraud, breach of contract claims, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, intellectual property infringement, commercial foreclosures and unfair competition.

Outside of the courtroom, Mr. Cicero provides Delaware corporate and alternative entity advice . Mr. Cicero has earned a “Superb” peer review rating through Avvo and several other honors. Mr. Cicero is admitted to practice before all Delaware state courts and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.