Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Dispute Resolution: Ontario

Partner

Nadia represents a wide range of clients in both English and French, in complex and often high profile proceedings, including class actions, administrative, regulatory, constitutional, and human rights law cases.

Nadia has represented clients in industries including transportation, financial services, broadcasting and telecommunications, energy, and entertainment, and has particular subject-matter expertise in transportation law, electoral law, access to information and official language rights.

Nadia regularly appears before all levels of federal and provincial courts, administrative tribunals, and commissions of inquiry, and has appeared numerous times before the Supreme Court of Canada. Nadia is a member of the CBA Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee. She is the chair of BLG's Appellate Advocacy and Public Law Group and serves as the Regional Manager of the Commercial Litigation and Construction Group in Toronto. She is also a member and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (AJEFO), as well as a member of the Ontario Bar Association Official Languages Committee. Prior to joining BLG, Nadia served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada to The Honourable Mr. Justice Bastarache.

English and French

Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (2024-present)​ Vice-President, Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law inc., 2023-present Secretary, Appellate Advocacy Practice Group, The Advocates' Society Chair, Interventions Committee, Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario Member, The Advocates Society, 2020-Present Past Member, Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)'s Law Program Committee​ Member, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association Member, County of Carleton Law Association Former Member, Canadian Bar Association, Federal Court Bench and Bar Association, 2019-present Member, Divisional Court Users' Committee, 2019-present Member, Organizing Committee of the Judicial Assistants of the Supreme Court of Canada's 2020 Conference Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee, 2021-Present Member, TAS Appellate Advocacy Practice Group Past Member, Official Language Committee, Ontario Bar Association

LLB (summa cum laude, gold medalist), University of Ottawa, 2003 Bar Admission Ontario, 2004

Past director and secretary, Citizen Advocacy (a charity that helps people with disabilities participate more fully in community life)