ATLANTA—Georgia Trend magazine has selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney William M. (Bill) Joseph as one of its 2021 Legal Elite in the category of Taxes, Estates & Trusts. This is the eighth time Joseph has earned the Legal Elite honor.

Georgia Trend magazine invites all Georgia lawyers to nominate the attorneys they consider best in 15 practice areas. Those attorneys earning the highest number of votes were selected to the Legal Elite list.

Joseph is a Member (Partner) based in the Atlanta office of Stites & Harbison. He is a member of the firm’s Business and Finance Practice Group. Joseph focuses his practice on transactional tax matters, counseling clients on domestic and international corporate mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures. He also regularly represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state departments of revenue. Industries in which Joseph has represented clients include telecommunications, food manufacturers, insurance, banking and financial services, health care, technology, commercial and residential real estate development and venture capital.