Meet Page

Page T. Mizell

Page Mizell is a senior associate at Joyner Law, where he handles cases across the firm’s full practice — speeding tickets, reckless driving, DUI, drug offenses, and serious felony work through homicide.

Page earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. He went on to Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, where he graduated cum laude in 2015 with concentrations in Criminal Law and Environmental and Energy Law, and served on the Executive Board of the Appalachian Natural Resources Law Journal. He was admitted to practice in Virginia in 2015.

Before joining Joyner Law in 2021, Page spent six years on indigent defense work. He started by taking court-appointed criminal cases in private practice, earning his Misdemeanor and Felony Certifications from the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission — the qualifications Virginia requires to handle court-appointed cases at each tier. In 2019 he joined the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission full-time as an Assistant Public Defender out of the Petersburg office, where he tried cases ranging from DUI through homicide in both jury and bench trials.

That stretch of work shapes how he practices today. Page came up trying cases where the outcomes were the worst outcomes Virginia criminal law produces. What he learned is that you don’t get those cases right by working them lightly. He works a case until he’s certain he knows what’s in it — taking the file home, reading it again, calling the witness who didn’t seem important the first time, staying with what doesn’t add up until he understands why. That doesn’t get rationed by the size of the charge. He brings the same approach to a reckless driving case as he did to a homicide trial.