Curriculum Vitae

 MICHAEL AARON  CRYSTAL

 Crystal Criminal Law Office
309 Cooper Street Suite 310
Ottawa Ontario, K2P 0G5
Tel: (613) 594-5490
Fax: (613) 594-5225
Webpage www.accidentaljurist.com
Email: mcrystal@accidentaljurist.com

Education 

BA (Honours in Classics, Cum Laude) Dalhousie University 1986
MA (Classics) Dalhousie University 1988
LLB Dalhousie University 1991

Legal Work Experience 

Public Defender (Criminal) Newfoundland Legal Aid Commission
1991-1996

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Advocacy Group
1996-1997

Pinkofsky Lockyer Criminal Law
Trial and Appellant counsel
1997-2001

Crystal Criminal Law Office 
Trial and Appellate Lawyer
2001-Present

Teaching Experience

1998 - 2001 - Lectured in University of Ottawa’s advocacy course under direction of Peter Cronyn

2006/7 - Coached Gale Cup Moot team from University of Ottawa     

2008 Winter Session - Taught Advanced Evidence Seminar at University of Ottawa

 Professional Associations and Volunteer Work

 Coach of the University of Ottawa Law School, Gale Cup Moot Team ( 2006-2007)

Advocates’ Society – Member

American Bar Association – Member

National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers-Member

Carleton County Law Association – Member

Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa – Member

Criminal Lawyer’s Association- Member

Volunteer counsel with Reach Canada, 1997-present

Volunteer counsel with Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted ,2005-present

Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Pro Bono Appeals group

 Publications

 Presently working on a book for Canada Law Book: “Prosecuting and Defending Police Misconduct”

The Therapeutic Sentence: “Chicken Soup for an Ailing Criminal Court”, published in Rehabilitating Lawyers, Ed. By David B. Wexler, Carolina Academic Press, 2008

“Practice Points: Lessons in Attorney – Client Communications”  June  2007 issue of American Bar Association’ s Criminal Law Journal

“Regulating the Sanctity of the Canadian Food and Drug Supply: the Need for Tampering Legislation” Regulatory Boards and Administrative Law

Legislation Volume 3, No 1, 1997 pp 147-150

“ How to Produce a Conditional Sentence for your Client” For the Defence, Vol. 26, No. 1 pp 24- 28, 2005

 “What to Do When the Telephone Doesn’t Ring: Mounting a Successful Counsel of Choice Argument” Article submitted and accepted to “For the Defence”

Vol. 26, No. 6 pp 20-26, 2005

“What Happens on the Road Does Not Have to Stay on the Road: Litigating Cases of Police Misconduct at the Roadside” Article submitted and accepted to “For the Defence”

Vol. 27, No. 3 pp 15- 30, 2006

“The Best Case I Never Had: Lessons in Solicitor – Client Communications”

The Advocate’s Society Journal, Winter, 2007.