Legal Minds Professional Corporation

About Legal Minds Professional Corporation

Legal Minds Professional Corporation is a small technology and privacy practice with its office in Mississauga, Ontario. The firm's own site markets it as a Toronto technology, internet, and privacy practice, reflecting a client base built around businesses across the wider region rather than a single storefront location. It was founded by lawyer Shan Alavi, who holds a JD and spent years in IT consulting and management before moving into legal practice, a combination that shapes the firm's focus on privacy program design, cybersecurity strategy, data governance, and compliance work tied to emerging technology.

Rather than run as a general practice, Legal Minds built a team that reaches beyond its lawyer. It draws on a network of non-lawyer specialists, including a physician trained in biomedical engineering, a digital media specialist with a Ph.D, and a software engineer with a Ph.D in aerospace engineering, who bring outside expertise to client projects. Legal Minds carries out privacy impact assessments measured against PIPEDA, Law 25, the GDPR, the CCPA, and PHIPA, and offers fractional privacy officer and privacy counsel services that include vendor risk reviews, Transfer Impact Assessments, and privacy training for staff. Alavi also holds the Black Duck Certified Legal Specialist designation for open source software audit work and works with organizations across Canada and internationally.