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Srinidhi Akkur is a lawyer at McMillan.
During her legal studies, Srinidhi served as the Co-President of the South Asian Law Students’ Association, a volunteer editor for the Canadian Journal of Commercial Arbitration and an academic tutor. She also volunteered with Pro Bono Students Canada, serving as Project Lead on a project assisting homeless and marginally housed individuals in Kingston. She has experience working in technology sourcing and enterprise architecture.
Srinidhi holds a JD from the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, a bachelor of mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a bachelor of business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Publications
- “AI in financial services: Need for safeguards and risk management,” Law360 Canada (May 11, 2023)
- “Don’t trip on a poorly drafted step clause,” Co-authored with Gemma Healy-Murphy and Connor Campbell, The Lawyers Dailey, This article was originally published by The Lawyer’s Daily (www.lawyersdaily.ca), part of LexisNexis Canada Inc. (November 3, 2022)
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