About Joel F.
Joel F. Murray built his legal basis at numerous institutions. He earned a J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2008 after finishing a M.S. in Philosophy and Public Policy on the London School of Economics in 2007. He began his undergraduate research on the University of Washington, graduating in 2003 with a B.A. in Political Science (with Distinction) and a second area in Economics. He later spent time as a visiting student at Georgetown University Law Center in 2011.
His early legal and coverage work mixed public service, tribal regulation, and marketing campaign communications. While still in law school he held internships and externships that included work for the United States Senate in 2010 and a legal fellowship in the Senate in 2011. In 2009 he served as a regulation clerk for the Tulalip Tribes. He also gained experience outside conventional legal roles, serving as Communications Director for the YES on EHJR 4204 campaign in 2007 and as Young Voters Outreach Coordinator for the NO on I-920 attempt in 2006.
Murray’s private practice résumé indicates numerous returns to acquainted settings. He listed MDK Law as an employer in 2011. He worked at JFM Law in 2019 and once more in 2023, and he spent time at McKean Smith in 2022. Those positions have placed him in court and administrative settings across Washington state and in federal boards.
He holds a license to practice law from the Washington State Bar Association and is a member in good standing of that association. Murray is likewise a member of the Clark County Bar Association, a membership that dates from 2024 and continues. His admissions include the state of Washington and federal courts, specifically the Ninth Circuit, the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, and the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.
Murray’s background mixes public-sector knowledge, tribal work, and campaigns alongside private practice. That variety has exposed him to statutory and administrative processes, to litigation in federal and state courts, and to the communications demands of public campaigns. Colleagues have famous his ability to transport among those settings with out dropping sight of procedural detail or court requirements.
He currently practices at JFM Law, dealing with matters in Washington state and in the federal courts where he's licensed.
