6 lawyers · City of Toronto, York Region, Durham Region
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Avanessy Giordano LLP is a Toronto personal injury firm for people facing serious and catastrophic injuries after an accident, with employment and real estate work offered alongside. Michael Giordano and Aline Avanessy founded it, and the firm has been doing injury work since 2015. Both founders spent many years at large firms first, saw how high-volume practices fell short on client care, and built their own firm to work differently.
The founders bring more than ten years of personal injury experience each. Michael Giordano was a partner at another injury firm and studied law at the University of Ottawa. Aline Avanessy spent time as in-house counsel to a major Canadian insurer, and the inside view of how insurers assess and resist claims now benefits Aline Avanessy's clients. Nima Azizi, a partner who has practised only on the plaintiff side of injury law, takes cases to the Superior Court of Justice and has jury trial experience.
Senior associate Antonia Hristova has been at the firm since 2020, and associates Braden Kingdon and Yan Li both articled here before joining as lawyers. Licensed paralegals and accident benefits law clerks round out the team. Clients can work in more than English: Michael Giordano is conversant in Italian, Aline Avanessy in Armenian and French, and several law clerks speak Cantonese or Mandarin. The lawyers are members of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association.
The main office is in Suite 411 at 1275 Finch Avenue West in Toronto, and the firm also has offices in Newmarket and Oshawa. Injury claims are taken on contingency: the first consultation is free, and clients pay nothing unless money is recovered for them.
The injury practice covers motor vehicle accidents, occupier's liability claims such as falls on another's property, product liability and medical malpractice. Michael Giordano, whose own focus is wrongful death, motorcycle accidents and serious injury litigation involving the brain, spine, concussion and catastrophic impairment, has been lead counsel in both judge and jury trials at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Nima Azizi regularly acts for clients in accident benefits disputes, including hearings at the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Michael Giordano has obtained decisions at the Licence Appeal Tribunal and the Financial Services Tribunal, and a licensed paralegal, Leila Shimi, guides clients through the accident benefits process from start to finish.
The firm has years of experience litigating long-term disability benefit claims in Toronto, and it steps in when an application has been turned down or payments have been cut off while a client still can't go back to work.
On the employment side, the firm acts for employees against their employers. It has taken on hundreds of Toronto cases covering wrongful dismissal, termination for cause, discrimination and harassment at work, workplace investigations and human rights breaches, both in court and at the negotiating table. Claims include Employment Standards Act termination notice, severance, common law entitlements and unpaid vacation pay, and Aline Avanessy's practice includes employment law litigation.
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The real estate work is residential: buying a first home, selling a property or refinancing a mortgage. That includes drafting and reviewing agreements of purchase and sale, condo status certificate reviews, registering private mortgages, and estate matters such as transmission and survivorship applications and estate sales.
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Free consultationAvanessy Giordano keeps a conservative file load so each case gets close attention to detail, and clients get regular updates as it moves along. A client can talk to the lawyer handling the case at any point, as often as needed, from the first step of the claim to the last. Michael Giordano and Aline Avanessy set the firm up this way after seeing the high-volume model up close.
The firm leans on long-standing ties with medical professionals the courts recognize, among them surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and physiatrists. Its commitment is to resolve cases quickly but only for fair and full compensation, settling out of court where that serves the client and going to trial when it doesn't.
The Toronto office sits in Suite 411 of the University Heights Professional Centre at 1275 Finch Avenue West, an eight-storey building with shops and restaurants on its lower floors, professional offices higher up and three underground parking levels. The centre stands at Finch Avenue West and Tangiers Road, just east of Finch West station. That station links Line 1 Yonge-University with Line 6 Finch West, which began running from it on December 7, 2025.
Outside Toronto, the firm keeps an office on Leslie Street in Newmarket and another on Rossland Road West in Oshawa.
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