your friendly neighbourhood lawyer

serving the miramichi river valley with professional legal services, close to home

Accessing legal services shouldn’t come with financial surprises. I offer flat-fee and incremental milestone based billing. To maintain this efficient, fixed-rate model and respect your time, all meetings and consultations will proceed virtually except where wet signature is required.

I am unable to provide free consults.I do not provide any advice on family, criminal, or personal injury matters, and do not facilitate real estate transactions.

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serving Blackville, Renous, Doaktown, Miramichi, and surrounding areas

How it Works

  • Fill out the Request for Services on this website with a brief overview of your needs.I do not accept requests via social media, text message, or phone call.

    We will then arrange a mutually convenient time for a brief, 10-minute introductory call where you can explain your issue.

    Please note: To protect both parties, no legal advice or opinions will be provided during this initial introductory call.

  • Following our call, I will conduct a formal conflict-of-interest check to ensure I can represent you. Once cleared, I will send you a clear quote .

  • If you choose to proceed, I will conduct the necessary research or drafting. When the work product is ready, I will email you a secure, password-protected PDF copy of the document along with your statement of account.

  • You can pay your statement of account immediately into my operating account via our secure payment link. As soon as payment is completed, you will be provided with the password to instantly access and use your completed legal documents or advice memo.

my journey from the riverbank to the bar

  • studying sciences at memorial university of newfoundland (2015)

  • biology field course in old harlow, england (2016)

  • working as creative director for miramichi river tourism (2016-2018)

  • first day of law school, unb law (2018)

  • sitting on the national canadian bar association privacy & access law section (2019-2021)

  • my summer office, interning for pharmascience & daniel brown criminal law (2020)

  • sunny days on the shores of the miramichi river

  • unb law graduation (2021)

  • articling at the gnl civil law division

  • called to the bar of newfoundland & labrador (2022)

  • a successful appearance before the court of appeal of nl on a privacy law matter (2023)

  • hiking the camino de santiago (2023)

  • saying goodbye to my gnl mentors (2024)

  • getting married "up cains" (2024)

  • la vie en montreal (2024-2026)

  • visiting antarctica (2025)

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  • buying our first home on the southwest miramichi river (2025)

  • hosting our friends & loved ones in our new home

  • preparing to open our medicine & law practices in the miramichi river valley (2026)

  • hosting our scottish student & Maine teacher as part of the Winward Educational exchange with Blackville School

  • pursued a b.sc from memorial university focusing on biochemistry, biology, and fisheries sciences

  • interned with daniel brown criminal law, pharmascience, and the criminal lawyers association

  • worked as research assistant with Dr. Janet Austen

  • graduated on the Dean’s List from UNB Law (2021)

  • was awarded the David Covert Scholarship & Hon. Franco & Maria Giamberardino Scholarship

  • was awarded the Hanson Prize in Constitutional Law and was named a national Runnymede Fellow for my strong commitment to constitutionalism, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law

  • my legal research on Section 8 Charter jurisprudence was later cited with approval by the Court of Appeal for Ontario, as well as by applicants before the Supreme Court of Canada

  • born & raised on the banks of the southwest miramichi river to an entrepreneurial family

  • learned the value of hardwork early in life, spending my childhood working in family owned businesses (mountain channel salmon club, nine pine truck stop, and buggie’s construction)

early life

education & research

trusted experience in civil & public law

  • articled with the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador’s Civil Division & was called to the NL Bar (2022)

  • provided high-level advice to various government departments, primarily focusing on privacy, constitutional, construction, and tenancy law, as well as complex contractual & statutory interpretation.

  • successfully appeared before all levels of court in Newfoundland and Labrador, sharpening my ability to analyze legal issues with absolute precision

  • worked as acting head of RTIPPA for the Miramichi River Valley municipality

  • There’s no place like home - after spending two years in Montreal supporting my husband through his medical residency, we returned to Blackville, accompanied by our two beloved corgis, Bruce and Walter; we love exploring the great outdoors & heading to our family cottages up cains river

  • I am an avid traveler, having had the privilege of visiting all seven continents, with my most memorable highlights being hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and visiting Antarctica

  • You’ll find me in the kitchen, I love to cook and hold a WSET-2 certification in wines, always enjoying the opportunity to pair good food with great conversation

  • I am community oriented and serve on the blackville home & school association, am a member of the canadian jewish law association, and enjoy supply teaching. I organize an annual birthday fundraiser for percy’s place and am a regular at Sunday night 45 games

life outside the law