Anisha Bhardwaj
Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2020
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Toronto
- Bio
- Awards & Recognition
- Professional Involvement
- Representative Matters
- Selected Speaking Engagements
- Selected Publications
- Insights
- Education
Anisha is a critical thinker and strategic advocate. She advises on complex litigation matters, navigating all avenues to resolve disputes. Clients appreciate her compassionate communication, collaborative approach and thorough understanding of their business objectives.
Anisha is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Her commercial litigation practice includes assisting clients with contractual disputes, commercial arbitrations, shareholder disputes, professional liability, oppression remedies, economic torts, injunctions and appeals. Anisha also has presented to various clients with respect to class action proceedings. She represents individuals and businesses across a number of industries, such as real estate, commercial leasing, construction, employment, expropriation and municipal. Anisha has appeared before all levels of Ontario courts and various administrative tribunals.
Awards & Recognition
- Student Recognition Award, South Asian Bar Association, 2019
- Lysaght & Stewart Scholar Award, Windsor Law
Professional Involvement
Memberships
- Board of Directors (2020-2024), and former Secretary (2022-2023), South Asian Bar Association
- Section Executive, Civil Litigation Division, Ontario Bar Association (2024 to present)
- Member-at-Large, Young Lawyer’s Division, Ontario Bar Association (2021-2022)
- Planning Committee Member, Women Lawyers' Symposium (2023-2024)
- Member, The Advocates' Society
Community Involvement
- Mock Judge, Windsor Law Transnational Moot Competition, March 2022
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
- Pro Bono Ontario
Representative Matters
Obtained a summary judgment in favour of a lender in an action involving the breach of a loan agreement in Massaar v. Moneck, 2024 ONSC 6889.
Obtained a Certificate of Pending Litigation in an action involving the breach of an oral agreement in George v. Mathew, 2024 ONSC 745.
Represented a fintech company and several of its directors on a Rule 21 motion to strike claims for breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, conversion, breach of the Competition Act and intentional infliction of mental harm in Ramirez v. Ledn Inc., 2023 ONSC 3716.
Obtained default judgment in favour of a leading property management company in a commercial leasing dispute in 175 Bloor Street East Inc. v. Dakin West Inc., 2023 ONSC 5155.
Obtained a certificate of pending litigation in an action involving breach of a letter agreement: Halbouni v. El-Turk, 2022 ONSC 6234.
Represented a municipality on an application for the transfer of land from the Crown to the municipality under the Forfeited Corporate Property Act, 2015 S.O. 2015 c. 38.
Obtained an order recognizing and enforcing a judgment of the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan in Ontario under the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act, RSO 1990, c R.5.
Selected Speaking Engagements
Moderator, “Building a Book of Business from the Ground Up,” SABA Toronto’s Annual Symposium, March 2024.
Panelist, Legal Panel, Windsor Law Career Fair, March 2024.
Panelist, “Making Mentorship Matter: Can it Break Down Systemic Barriers?” City of Toronto, May 2023.
Panelist, Legal Career Panel, Girls E-Mentorship, May 2021.
Selected Publications
Co-Author, "Top Class Action Decisions of Q3 2024," Aird & Berlis LLP, Class Actions Quarterly, October 18, 2024.
Co-Author, "Key Takeaways From 2023 Appellate Decisions," Aird & Berlis LLP Litigation Bulletin, March 1, 2024 (Included in Insolvency Insider, March 22, 2024).
Co-Author, "Depp v. Heard: What if This Lawsuit Had Been Commenced in Ontario?" Aird & Berlis LLP, November 29, 2023.
Co-Author, "Key Takeaways From 2022 Appellate Decisions," Aird & Berlis LLP, March 9, 2023.
Insights
Education
- JD, University of Windsor, 2019
- BA (Hons.), University of Toronto, 2015