Golnaz Nayerahmadi

Overview

Golnaz Nayerahmadi’s litigation practice focuses on class actions and complex multi-plaintiff actions. She has acted as counsel in a broad range of matters involving Crown liability and institutional abuse, professional liability, pharmaceutical and product liability, mass torts and industrial disasters, securities misrepresentation, and consumer protection.

Golnaz has represented clients in motions, applications, trials, and appeals. She has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and Quebec, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada.

Golnaz is a co-author of Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Material (3d Ed). She is the Past-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association Class Action Executive. She has been ranked by Chambers & Partners in the area of Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Plaintiff) (2024-2026), and has been recognized by the Canadian Lexpert Directory as a “consistently recommended” lawyer in class actions. She has also been recognized in the 2026 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ for Class Action Litigation, Product Liability Law, and Corporate and Commercial Litigation.

Golnaz is committed to pro bono work and has worked extensively with the Innocence Project on matters concerning wrongful convictions, including Albon v. Attorney General, which recognized, for the first time, a Charter-based duty of post-conviction disclosure.

Prior to joining Rochon Genova, Golnaz clerked for the judges of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto and interned at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Golnaz holds a dual degree in common law and civil law from McGill University. While in law school, she developed a curriculum on the rights and reintegration of child soldiers and was selected to speak at the National Council of Women of Canada’s roundtable at the 55th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Prior to attending law school, Golnaz obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, where she graduated with the Ethics, Society and Law Prize for highest standing in the program and received several awards for academic achievement.

Golnaz leads the firm’s recruitment. Inquiries and applications should be directed to her email address.

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Areas of Practice

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Recognition & Awards

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Education & Bar Admissions

• Law Society of Ontario, 2015
• LL.B./B.C.L., McGill University, 2014
• Academic Exchange Program, Charles University – Faculty of Law, (Prague, Czech Republic), 2013
• Hons. B.A. (Ethics, Society & Law, English) University of Toronto, 2010

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Speaking Engagements & Publications

• Speaker, 22^nd National Annual Class Actions Symposium, 2026, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, ,“Securities Class Actions”, April 24, 2026
• Speaker, 19^th Annual Conference on Crown Liability, 2026, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, “Class Actions Update”, April 22, 2026
• Speaker, 17th Annual Class Actions Colloquium, “Living with Change: The 2020 CPA and 2026 Proposed Rules,” November 25, 2025
• Speaker, Advocates Society, “Superiority? Complex!: Developments in Preferable Procedure”, February 27, 2025
• Speaker, 16th Annual Class Actions Colloquium, “Framing and defending liability for multiple alleged wrongdoers”, December 4, 2024
• Speaker, 17th Annual Conference on Crown Liability, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, “Update on Class Proceedings and Crown Liability in Negligence”, April 24, 2024
• Co-Chair, 15th Annual Class Actions Colloquium, OBA Class Actions Law Program, December 1, 2023
• Speaker, OBA Young Lawyers Division Program, Evidence Tips & Tricks for Early Career Litigators, “Effective Use of Business Records and Visual Aids”, May 12, 2023
• Moderator, 19th National Symposium on Class Actions, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, “View from the Bench”, April 28, 2023
• Co-Chair, OBA Civil Litigation Program, Advocacy Primer Part 1: Summary Trial and Summary Judgment, April 25, 2023
• Moderator, 14th Annual Class Actions Colloquium, “Class Actions on Trial: Litigating the Merits”, December 1, 2022
• Guest Speaker, Osgoode Hall Law School, Class Actions Seminar, “The Representative Plaintiff in Class Actions”, September 13, 2022
• Speaker, OBA Class Actions Law Program, “Fundamentals of Class Actions Law: Pleadings and Pre-Certification Issues”, June 27, 2022
• Speaker, 15th Annual Conference on Crown Liability, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development, “Class Actions: Updates for 2022 and Beyond”, April 22, 2022
• Golnaz Nayerahmadi, “‘Protecting What Matters Most’: Crown Immunity at the Cost of Accountability?” (2021), 52 Adv. Q. 24 at 242
• Guest Speaker, Osgoode Hall Law School, “Labour Law and Governance of Global Supply Chains”, December 4, 2021
• Guest Speaker, Queen’s Law School, Class Actions Seminar, “Securities Class Actions”, November 9, 2021
• Speaker, The Advocates’ Society, Eleventh Annual Securities Symposium, “Recent Developments in Securities Class Actions”, September 23, 2021
• Speaker, the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario, “Misrepresentations and Corrective Disclosures under the Securities Act”, September 22, 2021
• Guest Speaker, Osgoode Hall Law School, Class Actions Seminar, “The Representative Plaintiff in Class Actions”, September 14, 2021
• Speaker, “Access to Justice and Class Actions in England and Wales”, Class Actions and Rights Panel, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law, May 7, 2021
• Speaker, Law Society of Ontario, “Class Actions: Update for Litigators 2021”, COVID-19 & Class Actions Panel, January 22, 2021
• Speaker, OBA Class Actions Law Program, “Pandemic-Related Class Actions – What Are They and How Will They Change the Law and Landscape?”, May 27, 2020
• Speaker, The Advocates’ Society, “The Class Actions Practice Group Presents: Top Class Actions Cases of 2019”, January 20, 2020
• Guest Speaker, Osgoode Hall Law School LL.M., “Transnational Labour Law and the Global Supply Chain”, December 7, 2019

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Professional Involvement

• Ontario Bar Association, Class Actions Practice Group, Executive – Member-at-Large (2021–2024), Vice-Chair (2024–2025), Chair (2025–2026), Past-Chair (2026-2027)
• Ontario Bar Association, Civil Litigation Practice Group, Executive – Member-at-Large (2021–2023)
• Warren K. Winkler Class Actions Moot, Osgoode Hall Law School – Coach (2019–2021)
• Advocates’ Society, Class Actions Practice Group, Executive – Member-at-Large (2019–2020)
• Canadian Bar Association, Constitutional and Human Rights Section, Executive – Member-at-Large (2017–2018)

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Languages

• English
• Farsi
• French