Stephen Joiner

Steve Joiner has been listed in Best Lawyers each year since 2001 and is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.  His litigation work includes a wide variety of real estate and commercial contract disputes, including boundary disputes, construction disputes, Uniform Commercial Code cases, and sales and use tax challenges.  Mr. Joiner has experience with Arkansas state agencies and commissions, in particular the Arkansas Public Service Commission.  His transactional experience includes real estate and personal property sales and leases as well as lending transactions and contracts for utility, information technology, and personal services.  Mr. Joiner's lobbying assignments include utility and industrial regulation, insurance, and taxation issues.

Examples of Mr. Joiner's litigation work include the following:

• Lender liability defense.
• Class action usury defense.
• Certified rice seed sales contracts.
• Unauthorized collateral pledge of corporate stock.
• Custom designed manufacturing production line.
• Deer hunting stand design.
• Stadium construction.
• Natural gas pipeline easement encroachments.
• Accretion and avulsion boundary changes on the Arkansas River.
• Navigability of a lake.
• Unauthorized utility low income assistance charges.
• Illegal exaction taxpayer challenge to utility bill taxes.
• Natural gas pipeline compressor fuel sales and use taxes.

Best Lawyers in America - 2001-2010 Editions - Energy Law 

Metropolitan Junior Chamber of Commerce, Director and Legal Counsel

St. James Learning Center, Board of Directors

St. James Methodist Church, Administrative Board, Endowment Committee and Lay Reader

West Memphis Jaycees, President

Greater Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class VII

Central Arkansas Debtor-Creditor Bar Association

Volunteers Organization for Central Arkansas Legal Services, member

Pulaski County, Arkansas (Chair, Business Law Section, 1998–1999) (Member, Uniform Laws Committee) and American Bar Associations

Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation

Member, Baptist Health Foundation Board of Trustees

Member, State Capital Group Board of Directors (2010-2011)

University of Arkansas, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 1980

University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law, Juris Doctor (high honors), 1986

Member, UALR Law Journal

Arkansas, 1987