Jamie Simpson
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Jamie excels at understanding his clients’ interests and providing clear information and advice. Above all, he knows the value of listening.
Jamie is an accomplished researcher and analyst and enjoys digging into thorny legal questions. His areas of interest include judicial review, administrative and regulatory law, aboriginal law, and environmental law. Jamie has also handled cases in contract and property law. See Jamie’s TEDx talk on environmental rights here. Jamie has appeared before the provincial courts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeal in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the NS Utility and Review Board and the Canadian Nuclear Energy Board. He is a past executive director of the East Coast Environmental Law Association. In addition to his legal practice, Jamie teaches Environmental Law for Dalhousie University's Environmental Science Program. Jamie received his law degree and environmental law certificate from Dalhousie University, and completed his articles with Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Justice. He also holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Acadia University and a Master of Science in Forestry degree from the University of New Brunswick. He has been called to the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and to the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. Jamie is also a non-practicing member of the Association of Registered Professional Foresters of New Brunswick. In the Community Jamie is the author of three regionally best-selling books, Journeys through Eastern Old-Growth Forests, Restoring the Acadian Forest, and Eating Wild in Eastern Canada, all with Nimbus Publishing, and is honoured to have received several awards for his academic and conservation work:
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