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- Osgoode Hall Law School (2020) JD
- McGill University (2015) BComm (Accounting)
- Queen’s University (2015) GDAP (Accounting)
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Arash Nayerahmadi (he/him)
is an associate at Lenczner Slaght.
Arash’s litigation practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and professional liability. His clients have included professional services firms, technology companies, mining developers, fuel distributors, real estate developers, and retailers.
Prior to joining the firm, Arash served as a judicial law clerk to the judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, including the Commercial List.
Arash graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received numerous academic awards, and finished in the top 10% of the graduating class and second overall in his final year. He served as the Executive Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and volunteered at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association through Pro Bono Students Canada.
Before starting his career in law, Arash was an associate in the financial audit group at a multinational professional services firm and a management consultant at a top Toronto firm.
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Counsel to a psychedelic medicine company in a British Columbia securities class action.
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The Advocates’ Society
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Canadian Bar Association
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Ontario Bar Association
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Lenczner Slaght Welcomes Six New Associates
Canada’s leading litigation firm continues to strengthen its talent pool with the addition of six exceptional associates.
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2024 Class Actions Wrap-Up: Top 10 Cases Across Canada
2024 was another noteworthy year for class actions in Ontario and across the country. In our Class Actions Wrap-Up, Paul-Erik Veel, Jonathan Chen, and Arash Nayerahmadi highlight our top 10 class action decisions of 2024. These decisions reflect the most significant developments of the last year, and we expect they will set the tone for 2025.
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2024 Snapshot: Through the Lens of Lenczner Slaght
Lenczner Slaght launches our 2024 Snapshot, which highlights the most significant developments, decisions, and trends in litigation from the past year across 20 areas of expertise. Reflect on 2024 and look ahead to 2025 through the lens of our expert litigators.
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2023 Snapshot: Through the Lens of Lenczner Slaght
Lenczner Slaght launches our 2023 Snapshot, a look at the most significant developments, decisions, business takeaways, and trends in litigation from the last year, across 15 practice areas. Revisit 2023 and look ahead to 2024 through the lens of our expert litigators.
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Far Beyond Baker: Heuristics and the Inadequacy of the Reasonable Apprehension of Bias Analysis
Arash Nayerahmadi authored an article examining the reasonable apprehension of bias analysis in light of adjudicators’ vulnerability to cognitive biases. His article was published in Volume 59 of the Osgoode Hall Journal.
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Over-Indebted Criminals in Canada
Arash Nayerahmadi co-authored the article “Over-Indebted Criminals in Canada”, published in Volume 32, No. 4 (2019) of the Manitoba Law Journal. This article examines the “justice debt” regime, including the formerly mandatory victim surcharge, to illustrate the ways it interacts with the lives of indigent Canadians. (Prior to joining Lenczner Slaght)