Joe Masterman

Joe Masterman is one of the founding partners of Cooper Masterman PLLC. Before founding Cooper Masterman, Joe worked for an elite boutique litigation firm in Washington D.C. where he led high stakes litigation of national impot. Joe served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. He previously clerked for Judge Raymond M. Kethledge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Judge Amul R. Thapar on both the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Joe received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude, in English from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. In law school, he served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal, received the Potter Stewart and Harlan Fiske Stone Prizes for his performance in moot court, and was a member of the Supreme Court Clinic. He has been selected for the Temple Bar Scholarship and the Antonin Scalia Fellowship, and his writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal. Joe is admitted to the bars of the State of Florida and the District of Columbia.