Nadia Liva

Nadia is a strong and effective advocate committed to providing her clients with trusted counsel, creative solutions and superior strategic representation.

For over 30 years, she has been a trusted advocate for clients facing professional regulatory investigation, disciplinary proceedings and criminal charges.

With decades of experience navigating her clients through complaints and litigation, Nadia combines a common sense approach to legal, ethical and regulatory issues with sound judgment and creative approaches to problem solving. With over 60 reported cases before the Law Society Tribunal, Nadia has provided experienced counsel to hundreds of licensees and licensing applicants dealing with ethical, as well as disciplinary and regulatory issues relating to the Rules of Professional Conduct and involving the Law Society of Ontario. She has represented licensees on allegations of misappropriation, mortgage fraud, ineffective assistance of counsel, books and records issues and sexual misconduct. She has successfully represented numerous law students who were the subject of good character investigations, avoiding the need to proceed to a good character hearing. For licensing candidates facing good character hearings and for individuals seeking readmission to the Bar, Nadia has provided them with guidance and legal representation, successfully securing their abilities to practice law in Ontario.

Since 2018, Nadia has regularly appeared as Independent Legal Counsel for the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario. She has also represented professionals on regulatory and disciplinary matters involving the Ontario College of Teachers, the Ontario College of Nurses, the Ontario College of Social Workers, the Ontario College of Pharmacists, the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and the College of Chiropractors of Ontario.