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Joseph A. Miller was born in 1961 at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, Bernard Miller, was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.  His father was a former Navy Pilot and settled in Norfolk, Va,  after meeting Mr. Miller's mother, Caroline Miller in Norfolk, while on leave from his duties aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid.

Bernard Miller attended law school at New York University and became a Trial Attorney, practicing for over 30 years in Portsmouth, Va.

Joseph's maternal Grandparents in Norfolk, Virginia, Sydney and Adele Ashe, of Blessed Memory, were former proprietors of a popular Jewelry Store in the lobby of the old Golden Triangle Hotel in downtown Norfolk known as Ashe Jewelers, for many years.  Sidney Ashe, a native of St. Gallen, Switzerland,  was one of 13 siblings, and he was also a professional boxer and enjoyed a short but successful career in that sport.

Joseph Miller grew up primarily in the Churchland area of Portsmouth and Chesapeake Va, and attended public school at Churchland Elementary School, and later Western Branch Elementary and Western Branch High School, where he graduated in 1980. He began snow skiing at the age of 7 years old, an activity which he enjoys until this day.

Around the age of 15, Mr. Miller picked up a guitar, and began to sing professionally in a local band called "The Steppes, " covering the pop tunes of the day.  Over the next 20 years, Mr. Miller appeared in a succession of several other rock bands, eventually taking over the duties of rhythm and lead guitar. He also played professionally as a solo acoustic artist in numerous bars, restaurants, and coffee shops throughout the Hampton Roads area, and once opened for the rock band "America" and later, Leon Russell.

Mr. Miller attended Oxford College, and then Emory University, in Atlanta Georgia with a Pre-law focus, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, graduating with a B.A. from Emory in 1984.

 Mr. Miller continued onto Law School at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, earning a J.D degree in 1987. He was admitted to the practice of Law in Virginia in 1988 and in North Carolina in 1994.

Mr. Miller joined his father's Law Firm, Miller and Bondurant, Ltd. , in 1988, representing primarily injured railroad workers under the Federal Employee's Liability Act. His duties as Trial Attorney took him to numerous locales for depositions and Trials throughout the Southeast United States, to places like Savannah and Americus, Ga., Mobile, AL, Rocky Mount, Wilmington, Rockingham, Hamlet, Laurinburg, and Charlotte, N.C. , Jacksonville, Fl, Spartanburg, Charleston, Marion, and Florence, South Carolina, as well as Chattanooga, and Nashville, TN.

Mr. Miller has been married to his wife, Carol, a native of Port Jervis, N.Y.,  for 12 years, and they have two daughters, Dalya, 11 years old, and a newborn child whom they recently adopted, Emmi. They live in the Ghent Section of Norfolk along with their German Shepherd, Boom-Boom.

Mr. Miller's brother, Dan Miller, is also an attorney and heads the Law Firm of Miller & Regan & Associates, with offices in Virginia Beach and Newport News, VA. Dan practices primarily Criminal, Traffic, and Domestic Relations Law throughout the Hampton Roads area.

In 1999, Joseph Miller left his father's firm and founded the Law Firm of Accidental Injury Advocates, Ltd. where he continued representing injured Railroad Workers, and where he also expanded his practice to include representation of all injured people, wrongful death cases, and Virginia and North Carolina Workers Compensation, with the main offices in Norfolk, Va, and a satellite office in Elizabeth City, N.C.

He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, North Carolina State Bar, the American Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the North Carolina Association for Justice. He has lectured on several occasions to other attorneys on the subject of Trial Preparation of Injury Cases, and has authored numerous articles as well as a book-The Nine Biggest Myths about North Carolina Workers Comp, which is available free on this website or for purchase on Amazon.com.

While he no longer has the time to play music on a professional basis publically, he still enjoys writing and recording music, and is in the process of completing a CD of original music which he plans to release next year. He also enjoys camping and hiking with his family in the Shenandoah, and has traveled to Israel with his family on several occasions.