Michael Michel

About Michael

Michael Michel is an associate lawyer at Michel & Associates Law. Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, he earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Law and Justice from Laurentian University, graduating magna cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, where he focused on Criminal Justice and Aboriginal and Indigenous Law. During law school he was an Academic Peer Mentor, volunteered with Pro Bono Students Dalhousie, and completed a judicial clerkship at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, and he has published in the Dalhousie Law Journal, the Manitoba Law Journal, the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies, and the Criminal Law Quarterly. He defends clients facing serious charges in the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice, including attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery, sexual offences, drug trafficking, weapons offences, large-scale fraud, and impaired driving, and he assists as second counsel on homicide files. He has also argued a sentence appeal before the Summary Conviction Appeal Court for Ontario. He is a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association and the Sudbury District Law Association, sits on the Board of Directors of Monarch Recovery Services, and coaches students in the Hennessy Cup Mock Trial Tournament.

Education & credentials

Undergraduate

Laurentian University, Honours Bachelor of Arts, Law and Justice, magna cum laude