My name is pronounced: jenna-knee. Lawyer: criminal appeals, trials and professional regulation. Tweets my own.
Joined February 2013
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3 Jul 2025
On the hunt for a new addition to our team!
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11 Jun 2025
Come be my very first articling student!
11 Jun 2025
We are hiring an articling student for the 2026-2027 year! Applications are due by 5:00 pm on June 27, 2025.
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15 Apr 2025
The last few years brought many challenges: learning to practice law w/a child, Owen leaving for the Crown & practicing alone while grappling w/a serious family illness. What these years have shown me is that while I am resilient, I enjoy law more when I am part of a (great) team
15 Apr 2025
Career announcement: @SavardsLLP welcomes new partner Janani Shanmuganathan.
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16 Nov 2024
As always, love being co-panelists with my law bff. This year’s panel at the CLA Fall conference was on the spicier side: “BDSM & the Criminal Law”. FYI @ClaOntario - @BreanaVandebeek & I are available for future comedy routines.
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23 Jan 2024
Federal Court finds that the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was unreasonable & ultra vires & that the meaures violate ss. 2(b) & 8 of the Charter & not saved by s. 1. Gosh, a case of a life time for me! Thanks to my co-counsel @sujit_choudhry & our client @CDNConstFound
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20 Jul 2023
And just like that, our baby is 1 today. This first year was hard - the anxiety, uncertainty, sleepless nights & constantly feeling like I was underperforming as a mother & as a lawyer. But watching these two become best friends was without a doubt my favourite part. 1/2
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20 Jul 2023
Thank you to @OwenGoddard and to my colleagues on both sides of the bar, to judges and to court staff for giving me grace and empathy during this first year as I tried to get a handle on how to lawyer and mother in tandem.
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12 Apr 2023
Best place to nap a baby in the city - the quiet halls of Osgoode Hall.
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20 Mar 2023
I articled here over a decade ago and they’re still my “phone a friend” when I need advice. What a wonderful opportunity to learn from the best.
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12 Mar 2023
Thanks for having me (& Mia)! While it’s uncomfortable to be vulnerable about one’s insecurities, there’s so much “bravado” in this profession that I feel a sense of obligation to be open about the fact that motherhood has only made these feelings worse for me, but that that’s ok
12 Mar 2023
Happy Sunday! Time for a new FYN from @WiCCD_Canada. The wonderful @_JananiS is our guest with her baby girl Mia! New mums, watch this very cute interview as Janani talks about the challenges of working while being a new mum. #lawtwitter youtu.be/B7PFHzxjgUw
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27 Feb 2023
Looking forward to @SABAToronto's Annual Women Lawyers' Symposium this Saturday. Will be on a panel chatting about practicing law while pregnant/with a baby and what "maternity leave" looks like when running your own firm. Register now for what will be a fun in person event.
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18 Feb 2023
Spent the last 2 weeks in Costa Rica as our new family of 3. This was the first real time off I’ve taken since giving birth. Despite appearances, balancing work w/a baby has been hard & I’ve struggled a lot, questioning my abilities as a lawyer & as a mom. But it’s been worth it.
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28 Jan 2023
It took about a 100 takes for my co-star @Gerald_Chan_law & I to get through this script because we kept laughing, but the message is worth the cringe I feel seeing myself in this video. Our names are important & we shouldn’t feel embarrassed asking people to pronounce them.
27 Jan 2023
Have you had your name mispronounced? Or called someone by another name as it was easier to say?Watch this video on pronouncing one's name correctly.
Join us at our 16th annual conference as we "Change the Narrative" in the legal profession together. #faclON23 #NamePronunication
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9 Dec 2022
Take your (nursing) baby to court day - Newmarket courthouse
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18 Nov 2022
Off to the @ClaOntario fall conference. This time last year, I came home after the conference (& after party) & based on a “feeling” took a pregnancy test & found out I was pregnant. And now we have a baby. It’s crazy how so much can change in just a year ❤️
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18 Nov 2022
It’s never easy getting the Crown to concede an appeal, let alone concede that an acquittal is appropriate. Kudos to @OwenGoddard for writing a persuasive factum and highlighting the racial undertones in this case. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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9 Nov 2022
Owen & I argued at the Nfld CA last week on a s650 issue (pre-charge conf & discussion of jury qs in chambers). It’s interesting how well developed the s650 jurisprudence is in Ont vs Nfld where it was portrayed as an argument “unique” to Ont. Curious to see what Nfld will do.
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4 Nov 2022
The result in Sharma is disappointing for many of us today but it only makes the passing of Bill C-5 all the more important. I understand that at yesterday's debate during the 3rd reading of Bill C-5 @SenMarcGold recounted a story of a client of mine I had shared w/ committee 1/3
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4 Nov 2022
He told the Senate "That’s why she spoke passionately in favour of Bill C-5 at committee and urged us to pass it fast. She told our committee: I have clients who are hanging on to this bill passing . . . . I have actual clients for whom this bill would change their lives." 2/3
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4 Nov 2022
I echo that sentiment today, and even more passionately: please pass Bill C-5 and please pass it fast. 3/3
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