Nancy Sarmento Barkhordari received her Juris Doctor (J.D) from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2018 and was called to the Bar in 2019. Nancy has attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Law for her LLM, and she is currently pursuing doctoral research at Osgoode Hall Law School where she assistant teaches the Introductory Lawyering Skills tutorial seminar.
As an associate lawyer at Gosai Law, Nancy has a special interest in crown liability and is involved in interesting and notable cases involving class action litigation and solicitor’s negligence. See Johnson v. Ontario, 2021 ONCA 443, Johnson v. Ontario, 2021 ONCA 650, and Reddock v. Canada (Attorney General), 2021 ONSC 6013. She has appeared before the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Ontario Court of Justice.
Nancy sits on the board of the directors of the Ontario Bar Association (“OBA”), and is the sitting chair of the OBA’s Young Lawyer’s Division (“YLD”). Nancy has also served the YLD as vice chair in 2024, and as CPD Liaison from 2021 to 2023. Due to her love for all things appeals, Nancy also sits on the interventions committee at the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association.
Passionate about the field of law, Nancy has had articles published with the Ontario Bar Association, has been invited as a guest speaker at her alma mater, Osgoode Hall Law School. Nancy’s academic article proposing a normative framework for Charter damages will be published fall 2024 in Queens Law Journal.