JOEL MURRAY

JOEL F.MURRAY

ATTORNEY AND FOUNDER

Joel Francis Murray is the founder of JFM Law. He is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest and advocate for the continued economic growth of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

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Thanks to a diverse academic, legal and professional background, Joel offers legal counsel and services on matters involving administrative law and appeals of rulings from state and federal agencies, business law, civil and commercial litigation, campaign finance and political law, employment law, local government and land use law, liquor and cannabis law, trademark law, transportation law, tax law and related practice areas to meet the needs of businesses of varying sizes and industries.

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Following graduation from law school, Joel joined a business law firm in downtown Bellevue, Washington. There, he was exposed to a wide variety of practice areas, but primarily focused on legal issues affecting small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as investors in and owners of closely held corporations (S-Corporations) and business entities.

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Joel is a graduate of the University of Washington, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of California, Davis, School of Law. During law school, Joel was a member of the UC Davis Law Review, and completed his final year of law school in Washington, DC while chairing a national political organization, completing an externship and fellowship in the United States Senate, and finishing law school at the Georgetown University Law Center. Joel has published two law journal articles, and taught multiple continuing legal education (CLE) seminars.

Over the years, Joel has served in a variety of community and leadership-oriented positions. He served as student body president of his high school. As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he chaired a 30,000 member plus student organization

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EDUCATION

• J.D. Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law

  • UC Davis Law Review

  • UC Davis Business Law Journal

  • UCDC Law Program

• Visiting Student, Georgetown University Law Center

  • National President, Law School Democrats of America​

  • Legal Extern and Fellow, United States Senate

• MSc Philosophy and Public Policy. London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Studies focused on economic theory, and government regulation of the market

  • Dissertation critiqued socialist economic theory

• B.A. Economics, Political Science. University of Washington​

  • Assoc. Students of the Univ. of Washington

  • Honors Political Science

  • Phi Kappa Tau​​​​​

ADMISSIONS

• Registered Lobbyist with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission

• Washington State

• United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington

• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

• United States District Court for the Western District of Washington

• Tulalip Tribal Court

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Drafting Commercial Goods Warehousing Agreements on Behalf of Warehousers or Customers, (with Mark D. Kimball and John F. Horvath), Strafford Publications, Inc. (February 2016)

• “Drafting Legal Documents”, (with Mark D. Kimball), Center for International Legal Studies, University of Szeged, Szeged, Csongrád County, Hungary (October 2014)

• Policing the Ballot: Citizens for Tax Reform vs. Deters and Prohibitions on Volume-Based Compensation for Paid Signature Gatherers, 71st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America (April 2013)

• Policing the Ballot: Citizens for Tax Reform v. Deters and Prohibitions on Volume-Based Compensation for Paid Signature Gatherers, University of Virginia Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Fall 2012)

• Professional Dishonesty: Do U.S. Law Schools That Report False or Misleading Employment Statistics Violate Consumer Protection Laws?, University of Houston Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law (2012) Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer 2012) (cited by Cooley v. Kurzon Strauss, LLC, et al., Opinion and Order, Case No. 1:11-CV-844, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division (2013))

• Applying Consumer Protection Laws to Law School Advertising, Thomson Reuters (West) Continuing Legal Education Seminar (August 16, 2011)

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that focused on increased federal and state funding for higher education, was active in student government, helped re-found and served as vice-president of his social fraternity, and worked on multiple statewide ballot measure campaigns in support of public education.

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Throughout his life, Joel has been interested in local, state and national politics. Accordingly, he has developed relationships with former and current local, state and federal elected officials. Having run a national political organization during law school, Joel continues to be active in state as well as federal politics, and maintains relationships with Democratic, Independent and Republican current and former elected officials, pundits, and other politically engaged individuals.

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Outside of work, Joel's interests include Husky football, golf, foreign affairs and international relations, technology, politics and political satire, and new urbanism/mixed use and transit oriented development.

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