Personal Experience
James Pendergast is a Senior Managing Associate Lawyer at Rosen and Associates Tax Law.
At R&A Tax Law, James assists clients with the Canada Revenue Agency’s administrative appeals process and through litigation before the Tax Court of Canada and Federal Court. He has worked on matters including complex audits, appeals, real estate dispositions, cryptocurrency, small business tax issues, tax shelter structures, and indigenous taxation issues amongst various others.
James is our trusted Senior Managing Associate and commenced his legal career with R & A Tax Law as a Summer Student (19), returned as an Articling Student (20), and following his callto the Bar in Ontario (21) as an Associate.
James has been the Director of Student Development at R & A Tax Law since 2023 and has been the inaugural Director of the firm’s Health and Wellness Committee since January of 2025. His passions for fitness, mental health and wellness and employee wellbeing have underscored his coordination of firm yoga classes and fitness-oriented team events such as firm rock climbing and spin classes.
James was conferred his Juris Doctor degree University of Toronto Faculty of Law in June of 2020. During his legal education, James was a chair of the Faculty of Law’s Health and Wellness Committee, volunteered with the Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) program and was an Associate Editor with the University of Toronto Law Review. In 2019, James competed for the University of Toronto at the 2019 Donald G. H. Bowman National Tax Moot and helped the 2020 team. James attended the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland for the fall semester of his final year of law school.
Prior to attending University of Toronto, James majored in Spanish at Dalhousie University and studied on exchange at Universidad Autónoma de Campeche in Campeche, Mexico. At Dalhousie, James was awarded the President’s Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and graduated with Distinction.
James was raised on Prince Edward Island before moving to Nova Scotia for university. He grew up playing basketball, volleyball, tennis and running track and field. When not at work, he enjoys anything active, cooking and travelling.
