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Adrian Ishak’s practice at Rubin Thomlinson focuses on all aspects of employment law including employee relations, terminations, wrongful dismissals, employment contracts, and employment policies. He provides strategic counselling on a number of human resources, privacy and human rights issues. With a joint Ontario and Québec call and with experience in both jurisdictions, Adrian guides his clients through employment standards matters, pay and employment equity, and human rights obligations in Canadian common law and Québec’s civil law jurisdiction. Adrian represents clients in both English and French.
Before joining Rubin Thomlinson, Adrian spent nearly eight years at one of the world’s largest law firms where he counselled employers, including many Global 500 companies, across various industries.
In 2015, Adrian was recognized as a Lexpert "Rising Star”, an award that honours Canada’s leading lawyers under 40.
Adrian is President of Eva’s Initiatives, providing shelter, training and counselling to homeless youth. He also sits on the Young Leadership Council of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and he volunteers at the Legal Advice & Referral Clinic of The 519 Church Street Community Centre.

Nafisah Chowdhury is a Partner at Miller Thomson LLP, practicing in employment and commercial litigation. She provides advice to businesses of all sizes on a broad range of matters, including navigating workplace issues, resolving shareholder disputes, and addressing privacy law concerns. She regularly appears before the Courts and assists with cases before various administrative tribunals.
Nafisah completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo in 2004 and obtained her law degree from the University of Toronto in 2007. She is involved in various community projects and is an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Labour and Employment Law section.

Sarah has been an Associate at Rekai LLP, a boutique corporate immigration law firm in Toronto, since 2014. She practices Canadian citizenship and immigration law exclusively.

Sarah’s practice encompasses a variety of immigration matters, including: business visitor entry, labour market impact assessments, employer compliance reviews, work permits, study permits, visitor records, temporary resident visas, temporary resident permits, criminal rehabilitation, permanent residence and citizenship.

Sarah has experience offering strategic legal advice and assistance to large multinationals, small businesses, start-ups and individuals to facilitate both short and long term employment of skilled foreign workers (and secure valid legal status documents for their accompanying spouses and dependent children) in a wide range of sectors, including, technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing, academic, healthcare, financial services, tourism, food and beverage, and the transition of those individuals to permanent residence and citizenship.

Prior to joining Rekai LLP, Sarah gained several years of corporate immigration law experience with the Toronto office of a prominent international law firm while completing the accreditation process to become licensed to practice law in Ontario.

As an immigrant to Canada, Sarah has first-hand experience with many of the applications that she now handles for her clients and can personally relate to the challenges involved in navigating the ever-changing landscape of Canadian citizenship and immigration law.

Sarah is the current Vice-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Citizenship and Immigration Executive.

Paul Lomic is an intellectual property and social media lawyer at Lomic Law. Paul's practice is focused on resolving intellectual property and commercial disputes, including matters involving patents, trademarks, copyright, social media/internet and confidential information.

As a registered trademark agent, Paul conducts opposition and cancellation proceedings and assists his clients with managing and protecting their trademark portfolios.

Paul is a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. Paul is a frequent contributor to legal education seminars and legal publications. Paul is the editor and an author of two books: Intellectual Property Litigation - Forms and Precedents (2016) and Social Media and Internet Law - Forms and Precedents (2014), both published by LexisNexis. Paul is also the general editor for Communications Law in Canada published by LexisNexis.

Paul received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, his P.h.D. in forestry from the University of Toronto, and his LL.B. from Queen's University.