Overview
Joshua Threadcraft is a trial and class action attorney in Burr & Forman’s Financial Services Practice Group with more than two decades of experience, including serving as first chair counsel in bench and jury trials and arbitrations tried to verdict. He is admitted to practice law in the five Southern states where the firm has offices (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee) as well as Kentucky and numerous federal courts across the country. Joshua routinely serves as lead trial counsel defending individual, multi-plaintiff and class actions lawsuits asserting claims ranging from alleged violations of federal statutes including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to alleged violations of state law.
Joshua also has extensive experience involving escalated reverse mortgage litigation in both state and federal courts across the country, including both the trial and appeal in the 2021 Florida Supreme Court case WVMF Funding v. Luisa Palmero, which held that, as a matter of law, a spouse who does not sign a reverse mortgage note is not a borrower on the loan. For the past several years, Joshua has also been heavily involved in landlord guarantor lease litigation across the country.
Joshua has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in the field of Banking and Finance, Commercial Litigation and Litigation Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, and is designated as a top rated consumer law attorney in Birmingham, Alabama, and the Mid-South by Super Lawyers. Joshua frequently speaks and writes on various topics, including trial strategy, and federal and state statutes applicable to the financial services industry, including reverse mortgage litigation trends and specifically the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, also serving as the author of the firm’s TCPA blog.
To view Joshua’s full list of reported cases, publications and presentations, please click below.
Experience
- Obtained summary dismissal of permissible purpose FCRA claim against auto lender in Kentucky federal court.
- Obtained judgment on Plaintiff's claims, and consent judgment on counterclaim at trial.
- Obtained summary judgment dismissal of Malicious Prosecution and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress claims in Georgia state court.
- Obtained summary judgment for individual defendant in multi-million dollar defamation action.
- Obtained $800,000 jury verdict.
- Obtained dismissal on the pleadings of Outrage claim in workers' compensation context.
- Retained as National Arbitration counsel for major national bank.
- Obtained summary judgment on behalf of defendant corporation for injuries sustained by individual when the business was robbed.
- Obtained summary dismissal of permissible purpose/false pretenses FCRA claim against auto lender in Alabama federal court.
- Obtained dismissal of appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
- Successfully compelled arbitration in multiple consumer finance actions.
- Obtained summary judgment dismissal of Malicious Prosecution claim and various state law claims in Florida federal court.
- Obtained dismissal of state law claims on grounds of Fair Credit Reporting Act preemption in Arkansas federal court.
- Retained to defend educational institution in TCPA solicitation class action.
- Represents numerous financial institutions defending TCPA claims across the country.
- Represents numerous financial institutions defending FCRA claims, including claims alleging impermissible accessing of credit reports and failure to investigate across the country.
- Defends and prosecutes escalated reverse mortgage claims in state and federal court across the country.
- Obtained U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmance of dismissal of FDCPA claim against national credit card company furthering Circuit split.
- Obtained dismissal of qui tam action, alleging submission of false claims to the FDIC.
- Obtained dismissal of state law claims based on FCRA preemption in case of first impression in Arkansas.
- Obtained U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmance of summary dismissal of permissible purpose FCRA claim against auto lender.
Honors & Recognitions
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®: Banking and Finance Law since 2016; Commercial Litigation since 2022; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants since 2022; Insurance Law since 2024
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, Consumer Law (2018-2021, 2023-2024)
- Alabama Super Lawyers, "Rising Star," Appellate (2011)
Newsroom
News
Speaking Engagements
Articles
Blog Posts
Professional & Community
Civic Activities
- Birmingham Bar Association Civil Courts Procedure Committee (2009-2010)
- Foundry Junior Board
- Member of the servant team for his Sunday school class
Professional Activities
- Alabama State Bar
- Mississippi Bar Association
- Georgia State Bar
- Florida Bar Association
Paralegal/Assistant
Legal Practice Assistant
Jayna Carlin
(205) 458-5408
jcarlin@burr.com
