Joel is an associate in the Employment, Labor and Benefits section, practicing in the Boston office.
In 2009 and 2010, Joel participated in Mintz Levin's fellowship program, which allowed him to practice as an Assistant Attorney General with the Fair Labor Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. Joel worked on criminal and civil matters involving issues of child labor, wage payments, minimum wage, true and accurate payroll records, prevailing wages and certified payroll records, worker's compensation premium evasion, and unemployment insurance fraud.
Joel was a summer associate at Mintz Levin in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Joel worked for Calpine Corporation for nearly five years, most recently as a Marketing Analyst.
In law school, Joel was a legal intern in the enforcement division of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. He served as Business Managing Editor of the New England Law Review, and authored Chipping at the Iceberg: How Massachusetts Anti-Discrimination Law Can Survive ERISA Preemption and Mandate the Extension of Employee Benefits to All Married Spouses Without Regard to Sexual Orientation, 42 NEW. ENG. L. REV. 109 (2007), which was selected as the Law Review's nominee for the national Scribes Award competition.
Joel is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. He earned his B.Mus., cum laude, from Ithaca College (1999) in Flute; his M.S. from Suffolk University (2004) in Human Resources Management; and his J.D., cum laude, from New England School of Law (2008), where he was a New England Scholar, a New England Merit Scholar, and a dean's list student. He was honored with the New England School of Law Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in 2008. Joel recently earned his LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University.