
Language(s) spoken: English
Bar Admission(s): New Brunswick, 2011
Legal Assistant(s): Donna-Lee Kirkpatrick
Joel has experience working as in-house counsel on the strategic aspects of business transactions, which allowed him to gain perspective of matters that go beyond purely legal considerations. He has considerable experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions work and financings, as well as business agreements generally, and works with clients such as aquaculture, seafood processing and distribution, and trucking. Joel has:
CPA Canada In-Depth Tax Course, 2015
University of Cambridge, LLM, Commercial Law, 1st Class Honours, 2010
University of New Brunswick, LLB, graduated with distinction, 2009
University of New Brunswick, BA, 2006
Board of Directors, Liberal Party of Canada – National, November 2015 – present
President, New Brunswick Liberal Association, November 2015 – January 2021
Director and vice chair, FUSION Saint John, 2013 – 2017
Director, New Brunswick International Sculpture Symposium Inc., September 2011 – December 2015
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Senior Seton Scholar in Law – Downing College, Cambridge
Beaverbrook Scholarship in Law
Harry K Scott Scholarship