Professional Profile
Joe Mirabella is an experienced trial lawyer with a reputation for aggressiveness and pragmatism. Joe focuses on complex civil litigation and high-value injury and damage claims, including wrongful death, commercial trucking, premises liability, construction litigation, business litigation, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith and subrogation. He represents clients throughout Wisconsin in state and federal courts and has extensive jury trial and appellate experience.
Joe is proud to be a lifelong resident of the Milwaukee area. After majoring in criminal justice at UW-Milwaukee, Joe distinguished himself academically at Marquette University Law School, where he served on the Marquette Law Review Editorial Board and was also selected for prestigious clinical education opportunities at the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Joe began his legal career with a large Milwaukee personal injury firm. He also spent time with another boutique civil litigation firm in Milwaukee before joining Simpson & Deardorff in 2018. He has been a shareholder since 2021.
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, B.S., 2007
- Marquette University Law School, J.D., 2011
- Wisconsin Super Lawyers-Rising Star, 2019-22
- Wisconsin Super Lawyers-Super Lawyer, since 2023
- Case Law Update, Wisconsin Claims Council, Spring 2019
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Overrules Pharmacal and Rejects “Other Property” Requirement for Initial Grant of CGL Coverage, Wisconsin Civil Trial Journal, Spring 2024, Vol. 22, No. 1
- What Actually Won the Case: Inside a Defense Verdict in a Recent Civil Trial, Wisconsin Defense Counsel Spring Conference, April 2026
- State Bar of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee Bar Association
- Wisconsin Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- The Gavel – Vetted Wisconsin Member
- State of Wisconsin
- Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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