Joel Ledezma

Joel Ledezma is a litigation associate at Beighley, Myrick, Udell, Lynne + Zeichman, P.A., whose practice assists businesses and individuals in their Bankruptcy, Probate, and Commercial litigation matters.

 

Joel earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Central Florida. Upon graduating, Joel returned home to South Florida and worked as a legal assistant to a Personal Injury attorney in Fort Lauderdale while concurrently working as part of the event production team at Gulfstream Park Racing, assisting in the planning and execution of large race day events and concerts.

 

In 2020, Joel was selected as a Goodwin Scholar by the admission committee at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law and was the recipient of the Goodwin Scholarship. For the next three years Joel attended Nova Law, where he participated in many extra curriculars. Of note, Joel served on the General Board for the Nova Trial Association as a teams coordinator, participated in NTA’s Intramural Trial Competition, organized and participated in Nova’s Trial Advocacy Summer Institute, and competed nationally at the South Texas Mock Trial Challenge. One summer, Joel went abroad and studied the art of trial advocacy at Oxford University in Oxford, England. Additionally, Joel spent a semester as a paralegal with the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office assisting the Public Defender’s at Bond/Arraignment hearings and other matters of criminal law. Joel graduated from Nova Law Cum Laude in May 2023 and was admitted to the Florida Bar in July 2023.

 

Prior to joining BMU Law, Joel worked as an associate attorney at a commercial and business litigation law firm located in Boca Raton, Florida, where he advised corporate clients in breach of commercial contracts, landlord-tenant disputes, corporate governance, administrative compliance, and any other civil dispute and commercial litigation matter. Joel also oversaw execution of Estate Plans as well as transactional matters such as Trademark filings. Joel prides himself in diligently representing clients in court and does not shy away from a good legal debate.