About Nirman's Law Professional Corporation

Nirman's Law Professional Corporation is a law firm based in downtown Ottawa, on Somerset Street West in the city's Chinatown district. The firm has practiced law in Ottawa for over twenty years, handling immigration and refugee law, real estate, wills and estates, corporate and commercial law, civil litigation and notary and commissioning services. President Daljit S. Nirman has practiced law for over thirty years and holds a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa, an LL.B. and an honors degree in physics from the University of Delhi, along with postgraduate diplomas in international law, labour law, international institutions and personnel management. Nirman belongs to the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the National Law University in Delhi.

The firm offers service in English, Punjabi and Hindi, with Urdu also available for immigration clients, fitting the multicultural strip around its Somerset Street office. Nirman has managed legal transactions surpassing $700 million across immigration, corporate and business matters, appearing before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court of Canada, and various administrative tribunals in Canada. Nirman founded the South-Asian Bar Association in Ottawa, was a foundational director of the Federation of South-Asian Lawyers in Ottawa, and was inducted into the Order of Ottawa in 2021.

In the community

  • The firm founded Cooking Up Community Services, a not-for-profit that has partnered with Eggspectation on free breakfast fundraisers in Ottawa; the September 2017 event raised over $16,000 for the Montfort Hospital Foundation's purchase of a CT scanner with a cardiac module, and the September 2018 event served about 1,400 guests and raised over $15,000 for Project STEP, a youth initiative led by United Way Ottawa.
  • Nirman was a key organizer of a fundraising initiative for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation's clinical research that raised $10 million over ten years.
  • Nirman serves as a board director of the Snowsuit Fund of Ottawa, and previously served on the boards of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization and the Indo-Canada Ottawa Business Chamber.
  • The firm hosts an annual Canada Day event in downtown Ottawa, giving out free water to the community.
  • The firm supports and partners with community organizations including Shepherds of Good Hope, United Way, Plan Canada, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and the India Canada Association.
  • Nirman and members of the Ottawa Sikh community joined a community kitchen meal at Shepherds of Good Hope marking the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's birth.
  • Nirman met with Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs, who presented a coin honoring the Kinawe Mashkawizimin Kakina Mamawe (We Are All Strong Together) community initiative.

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331 Somerset St. W., Ottawa, ON K2P 0J8 · 613-226-8989

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