Jamal completed a
clerkship at
Quebec Court of Appeal working for Justice Melvin Rothman and another at the
Supreme Court of Canada, working for Justice
Charles Gonthier. Before his appointment to the bench in 2019, Jamal was on the partnership board at Osler, and was chair of its
pro bono program. He has appeared in 35 appeals before the Supreme Court, in addition to appearances to lower courts and tribunals. Jamal represented
KPMG, which was then in court over its offshore
tax avoidance scheme for
high-net-worth individuals involving
shell corporations in the
Isle of Man. In 2016, because of ongoing litigation, Jamal wrote a letter to the
House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, requesting that specifics of the case not be discussed so that it would not prejudice the ongoing case. In response, chair
Wayne Easter imposed a
gag order, and expert witnesses were not allowed to talk about KPMG in the next committee session. Jamal also taught as professor of
constitutional law at McGill University and
administrative law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has served stints as a director of the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Advocates' Society, and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He is the first person from a
visible minority group and the first
Bahá’í to sit on the country's top court. == Personal life ==