Kiana Blake

Kiana Blake

Associate, Corporate

Contact Information

kblake@osler.com

tel: 416.862.6578

Office

Toronto

Bar Admission

Ontario, 2023

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School - York University, Juris Doctor

York University, Criminology and Human Rights & Equity Studies

Language(s)

English, French

Kiana is an associate in Osler’s Corporate Group. Kiana graduated from the JD program at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2022. Prior to law school, she obtained an Honours Bachelors with a Double Major in Criminology and Human Rights & Equity Studies at York University. She graduated at the top of her class with the Governor General Silver Medal and was her class valedictorian in 2018.

Kiana joined the firm as a summer student in 2021 and completed her articles with the firm in 2023.

  • People 4 People, Co-Founder

  • Law Society of Ontario
  • Toronto Lawyers’ Association
  • Canadian Association of Black Lawyers

  • AI Case Study: Probabilistic Genotyping DNA Tools in Canadian Criminal Courts, Law Commission of Ontario (Toronto: June 2021).

  • The Effectiveness of Community Mediation - Narrowing the Literature Gap with Research, Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal (Fall 2021), 30:2 at p. 28.

  • Feminism: A Money Making Business, Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, York University, 2018.

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