Bio

Joseph Gill is a tech lawyer that supports founders by providing market-focused legal advice and scaleable legal solutions. His belief is that founders need the right legal infrastructure to attract investment and proactively defuse legal bombs so they can focus on building and scaling their startups. Joe actively seeks out thoughtful founders who understand that the right advice from Day 1 will accelerate their startup towards investment and growth. Joe provides “cradle to grave” business planning focused on the stages of building, growing, scaling and exiting a business. He brings a unique business sense to his advice having co-founded a legal technology start-up that was a participant in Saskatchewan’s first pre-seed business accelerator program. He is counsel to dozens of start-ups in the software, technology, blockchain, and apparel industries. Joe also serves as the lawyer-in-residence for Co.Labs (a technology incubator in Saskatoon), the lawyer-in-residence for Cultivator (a technology incubator in Regina), a board member of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, a board member of Ideas Inc. (a business incubator in Saskatoon), and acts as Founder and Chair of the firm’s Start-Up and Entrepreneur Practice Group. He regularly presents to groups in the start-up ecosystem on legal issues such as formation, tax matters, employee incentive planning, privacy and cybersecurity, securing government funding, and raising capital (angels, venture capital, and private equity). He also provides ongoing advice to investment funds and regular investors active in the startup space. Joe is also a published tax lawyer, having written extensively on tax matters for organizations such as the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Law Society of Saskatchewan. He has completed the CPA Canada In-Depth Tax Course and is now an instructor for that course. In addition, he was formerly a sessional lecturer for a tax-focused class at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law. Joe advises a number of corporations and professionals (accountants, engineers, pharmacists, dentists) on tax matters and more general wealth planning. Joe is also a firm believer in taking an innovative and scaleable approach to legal services. He regulatory tweets (@prairietechlaw) about legal innovation and is a current member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan’s Cloud Computing Task Force. His commitment to innovative legal solutions includes provision of a fixed-fee startup legal package to founders, drafting of template contracts for repeatable business use, and offering of flexible billing arrangements such as fixed-fee or success-fee arrangements.