He is associated with Sive, Paget, and Riesel, a law firm specializing in environmental law. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in political science from McGill University, and a law degree from Columbia Law School. During law school, he served as a summer law clerk at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco, participated in the Columbia Environmental Law Clinic, and conducted research on nonprofit law and legal tools for facilitating renewable energy. He is the author of “Reconciling Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife and Massachusetts v. EPA on the Set of Procedural Rights Eligible for Relaxed Article III Standing,” which was published in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law and received the journal’s Best Note Prize. He lives in Brooklyn and enjoys New York City history, cooking, computers, and music. He is admitted to practice in New York State.