Mithoowani Waldman Immigration Law Group

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Mithoowani Waldman Immigration Law Group is a Toronto firm of lawyers practising in association who focus exclusively on Canadian immigration and refugee law. The firm takes its name from its two founding lawyers, Naseem Mithoowani and Clarisa Waldman, each of whom practices through a separate professional corporation while working together as a team. Mithoowani attended Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2008, then began practising exclusively in immigration and refugee law in 2010. Waldman graduated from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law in 2009, was called to the bar in June 2010, and later earned a Masters in International Affairs from Carleton University in 2011. Both lawyers appear regularly before the Immigration and Refugee Board and the Federal Court, and the firm's work covers business immigration, personal immigration, and administrative law matters.

The firm describes itself as women led and LGBTQ+ friendly, and it takes on Legal Aid Ontario and low income clients on a case by case basis. Mithoowani teaches immigration and refugee law as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and, in 2021, was appointed by the federal government to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, serving as a part time adjudicator. A third lawyer, Lynn Carson, joined the practice after graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2024 and being called to the bar in 2025. Carson's practice draws on a background in social services, including prior work at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, and applies what the firm calls trauma informed principles to immigration and refugee files.