10060 Jasper Ave, Suite 2000, Rice Howard Place, Edmonton, AB
Year called to bar: 1981 (AB)
In 1991, Joseph V. Miller left the partnership of a major Edmonton law firm to work with Weir Bowen; particularly with John Weir, one of Alberta’s leading medical malpractice lawyers. Since joining Weir Bowen, his practice has focused on people who have suffered injuries or death due to medical errors. As his practice evolved, he began representing children, including cases for babies with brain injuries due to oxygen deprivation during labour and delivery, hypoglycemia, infections, or premature birth. He has also represented infants with traumatic brain injuries due to forceps or vacuum extraction at delivery and children injured as a result of mismanaged shoulder dystocia. The primary goal of obstetrical and neonatal litigation is to ensure the injured child has sufficient funds to access treatment they need and to set them up for independent adult living. The settlements and trial awards he has prosecuted have resulted in the largest injury settlements in Alberta history and the largest trial decision for personal injury in Alberta. In 2016, he and some of his Canadian colleagues founded the Birth Injury Lawyers Alliance. This is the largest group of birth trauma lawyers in Canada dedicated to representing children who have suffered injuries at birth or as a newborn.
