Nadia Effendi

Practice Areas

Regional Group Manager of BLG’s Dispute Group in Toronto. Nadia represents a wide range of clients, in both English and French, in complex and often high-profile proceedings, including class actions as well as administrative, regulatory, constitutional, and human rights law cases. Nadia has represented clients in a broad range of industries (e.g. transportation, financial services, broadcasting and telecommunications, energy, entertainment, etc.) 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.

Career

LLB, University of Ottawa, 2003. Bar Admission, Ontario, 2004.

Professional Memberships

Past-President, Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (AJEFO).

Member-at-Large, The Advocates’ Society Appellate Advocacy Practice Group.

Member, CBA Federal Courts Bench and Bar Liaison Committee.

Publications

Quoted, "These two events highlight importance of having women in leadership positions, says Nadia Effendi," Canadian Lawyer Magazine, 2022

Quoted, "Why Jordan does not apply to administrative proceedings," National Magazine, July 2022.

Quoted, "SCC refuses to make it easier to establish delays as abuse of process in administrative proceedings," The Lawyer's Daily, July 2022.

Quoted, "Delay in Law Society of Saskatchewan disciplinary proceeding not an abuse of process: SCC," Canadian Lawyer Magazine, July 2022.