Joven Narwal is a leading Vancouver lawyer whose practice is devoted to complex and serious cases where liberty and reputation are at stake, primarily in areas such as criminal litigation, securities litigation, professional regulation, and specialty civil litigation involving criminal overtones. He is also sought-after for preventative advice regarding the design and implementation of compliance procedures to reduce exposure to regulatory prosecution and for cross-border investigations and enforcement actions, such as US grand jury investigations, Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Requests and other foreign subpoenas and demands for production. He is an adjunct professor at the Allard School of Law at UBC, where he created and teaches two upper-level seminars on complex criminal litigation, “White Collar Crime” and “Criminal Organizations”. He is also a member of the judicial council of the Tsawwassen First Nation, where he is responsible for resolving disputes, hearing appeals, and adjudicating the validity of Tsawwassen Laws. He served as the first visible minority president of the Vancouver Bar Association and currently holds several leadership positions in the legal profession, including director and executive of the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia; incoming chair of the Canadian Bar Association – Criminal Subsection; director of the South Asian Bar Association of British Columbia; and an inducted member of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, a global honorary society. He received his first law degree from UBC where he earned many awards for academic achievement and started his career as a Crown prosecutor. He then earned an LLM from Columbia University in New York City, and became founding partner of Narwal Litigation LLP. Mr. Narwal regularly presents at professional development seminars and is a prolific writer and commentator whose opinions have published by local, national, and international media.
As leading dispute strategists, Narwal Litigation LLP has a proven track record of success in high-stakes and high-profile trials, hearings and appeals and is equally adept at resolving sensitive matters before they draw public scrutiny.
Updated April 2021
