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Biography

Farah practices law with Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General, serving the Ministries of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade and Red Tape Reduction. Her solicitor practice includes corporate-commercial law, Crown agency law, privacy law and public sector ethics. She is the former Corporate Secretary to Venture Ontario, the venture capital investment arm of the Government of Ontario. Previously, she was Counsel to the Ministries of Education and Colleges and Universities and practiced in the areas of Administrative Law, Education Law and Human Rights. Prior to that, she was a civil litigator in private practice and has appeared before a number of courts and tribunals. Farah has been involved in various initiatives of the Ontario Bar Association, including serving as a member-at-large of its Administrative Law Section Executive. She completed a clerkship with various judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, including the former Chief Justice R. Roy McMurtry. Farah is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Hon. B.Sc. in Biochemistry), the University of Windsor (LL.B.) and the University of Detroit Mercy (J.D., magna cum laude). She was called to the Ontario bar in 2005.