Joe Fine is a partner in Reitman Parsonnet, P.C. Before joining the firm in 1986, Joe was with Eisner & Levy in New York, and was staff counsel for District 65, UAW.  He received his Bachelors Degree in Labor Studies from Rutgers University's Livingston College in 1979. He is a 1982 Honors Graduate of Rutgers School of Law in Newark, where he received the G.A. Moore, Jr. prize for distinguished work in equal opportunity law.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also a member of the labor sections of the American Bar Association and the National Lawyers Guild. He is one of the editors of How to Take a Case before the NLRB, published by the ABA and the Bureau of National Affairs.  He has served as a frequent speaker and coordinator for the annual National Labor Relations Board Conference co-sponsored by Region 22 of the Board, the Bar Association, and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education.  He has been an adjunct professor of collective bargaining at Rutgers Union Leadership Academy, and a guest lecturer at colleges, law schools and union education programs.

Joe spends much of his time working with garment and textile workers in the merged union known as UNITE HERE and with a wide range of other labor organizations and individuals.  He has represented unions in a variety of industries including trucking and transportation, health care and education, Longshore, warehouse and retail, the building trades and the public sector.  Joe has handled many dozens of cases protecting the wages and benefits of workers from across the country.  His special areas of interest include union organizing and the legal rights and responsibilities of union members.