When you're falsely arrested at 17, by a belligerent cop who's more intent on bullying youth than developing a healthy relationship with his community, it’s a formative experience. And when you witness the local system group around that cop's impulsive behavior to incriminate you as best they can—in ...complete defiance of reality as you experienced it—you’re turning 18 in a front-row lesson about systemic injustice, and the miscarriage of justice. If you’re fortunate, you find someone capable and caring. Joseph Fortunato not only offered the legal expertise that appealed and got a contrived case dismissed, on grounds that the arrest was unconstitutional, but he offered the emotional sensitivity to ensure that this teenager felt validated, and learned that the law is not a cheap tool to be hijacked by the heartless. Today, this experience is long behind me, but I still benefit from the services of Joe Fortunato at Fortunato Law. Whether I am navigating a business decision or life matter that requires an understanding of the law, Joe Fortunato's intellectual generosity has been a perpetual blessing in my life. While his lifelong commitment to social justice shows in his compassion, values, and attentiveness, it’s his considerable experience and legal prowess that ensure you’re in capable hands. This is a lawyer who cares. Besides, who doesn’t want to say that they have a lawyer who was a student of Howard Zinn?!