Joseph Vale is a partner with Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez, LLP, and began working with the firm in September 2012 shortly after taking the bar exam.

He is board certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and he handles the firm’s appeals as well as providing trial and other litigation support. Joseph has represented clients in appeals and mandamus proceedings involving a broad array of legal issues in state and federal appellate courts. He successfully served as lead appellate counsel and presented oral argument in the Texas Supreme Court for the defendant-petitioner in Mo-Vac Serv. Co. v. Escobedo, 603 S.W.3d 119 (Tex. 2020).

Joseph was born in Arlington, Texas, but he grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, spending kindergarten through high school at Sharyland I.S.D. His family has deep roots in the region. In 2009, Joseph graduated magna cum laude from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a minor in philosophy. Joseph is also a graduate of the Baylor Honors Program and is a fifth generation Baylor graduate. In 2012, Joseph graduated cum laude from the Baylor Law School where he published a law review article (Not More than Dicta? Whether the DTPA’s Additional Damages Can Quadruple Economic and Mental Anguish Damages Under Tony Gullo Motors I, L.P. v. Chapa, 63 Baylor L. Rev. 934 (2011)) and served as Senior Technical Editor for the Baylor Law Review. Joseph is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas.

Joseph serves his local, state, and federal bar associations in several capacities. On the Hidalgo County Young Lawyers Association, he served on the board of directors for several years beginning in 2014. He has served on the Hidalgo County Bar Association’s board of directors since 2019 and is the co-chair of its Appellate Law Section. With the State Bar of Texas, Joseph is a member of its Appellate, Litigation, and Hispanic Issues Sections. In 2022, Joseph accepted nominations to serve on the Council for the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and to serve as a member of the State Bar of Texas’s Pattern Jury Charges – Business, Consumer, and Employment Committee. He also has co-chaired the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section’s Diversity Committee since 2020. Joseph also has served on the board of directors for the Federal Bar Association Southern District of Texas Chapter since 2021, and he is also a member of the Bar Association of the Federal Fifth Circuit.

Additionally, Joseph was named to the 2022 and 2023 lists of Texas Rising Stars by Super Lawyers Magazine published by Thompson Reuters. He also graduated from Leadership McAllen (Class XXXVI) in 2017 and from Leadership State Bar of Texas in 2021. He frequently writes and gives presentations on topics for continuing legal education.