Joseph began his study of law around the middle of 1972.  At that time it was more curiosity than an intent to actually apply anything that he was learning.  He simply wanted to know what his rights were.  He became hooked almost immediately!

He discovered that law surprisingly suited his aptitude.  Joseph has a very mathematical and analytical aptitude and when he applied mathematical logic to law, he discovered patterns which made the decisions quite rational and easily understood.

He began to seek out Attorney's to answer questions that came up while reading the opinions concerning matters that were not revealed with the law books.  He had no idea that what he was doing is now referred to as "legal reasoning" by the American Bar Association.

Eventually, his questions revealed a depth that was consistent with the work of an Attorney and he was able to obtain some work "looking things up" for busy lawyers.  He became quite adept in using the "Westlaw Digest System" and "shepardizing" to create a suitable pattern sufficient to reveal how the average judge might rule if a particular issue was presented before him/her in a particular way.  Joseph was also able to reveal issues open to appeal when a judge did not rule as expected.  After a while, he began to acquire a reputation for being able to produce "good cause to show that the client was entitled to relief" according to how the legal reasoning of the case was to be presented.

By 1975 he was fully entrenched into the field of Criminal Law known as Post-conviction Relief Petitions which involves appeals on the client's behalf in such matters as ineffective assistance of counsel and deprivation of due process.  Working as a contract researcher, Joseph was very successful in this area and was directly involved in more than 25 published decisions, over 250 reversals of faulty decisions and nearly 3,000 favorable decisions.

Joseph worked in this capacity until the summer of 2003 when he switched his focus to helping people who cannot afford a lawyer, don't know how to complete the research to help themselves and/or cannot find a lawyer who will take their case.