Areas of Practice
Joy Hodge focuses her practice on taxation law, with a particular emphasis on business advice, succession and estate planning.  Ms. Hodge drafts complex commercial documents, trusts, wills and business succession plans in order to maximize the wealth of current principals and preserve closely-held and family businesses for the next generation of ownership.  She also serves as an advisor to corporate clients on such matters as partnership and shareholder agreements, protection of trademarks and copyrights, corporate/commercial transactions, including the formation, purchase, sale and restructuring of businesses and professional practices, and general corporate agreements.

Professional/Civic Activities
• Member, American, New Jersey, Virginia and Fairfax County Bar
Associations

Publications
• On the Death of Dr. Jekyll – The Disposition of Mr. Hyde: The Proper
Treatment of an Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust at the Grantor’s
Death, 29 TAX MANAGEMENT ESTATES, GIFTS AND TRUSTS JOURNAL 275
(Nov. 2004).
• Telemedicine: Medical Treatment Via Telecommunications Will Save Lives,
But Can Congress Answer the Call?, 22 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 231
(Fall 1997).
• The Rhetorical Implications of the Architecture of the National Holocaust
Memorial Museum: An Outreach to a Desensitized Culture, L1
PENNSYLVANIA SPEECH COMMUNICATION ANNUAL 75 (1995).

Bar/Court Admissions
• New Jersey, 2007
• District of Columbia, 2002
• Virginia, 1999

Education
• LL.M. (Taxation), Georgetown University, 2006 (with distinction)
• J.D., Vermont Law School, 1998 (cum laude)
• B.S., (Mathematics), Seton Hall University School of Law, 1995 (cum laude)