Warda Shazadi MeighenB.A.H., J.D., MSc.

Warda Shazadi Meighen is a founding partner of Landings LLP and a constitutional, immigration and administrative law litigator. For more than fifteen years she has taken on complex and consequential cases before Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Her practice sits at the intersection of state power and individual rights. She litigates cases involving national security and terrorism-related inadmissibility, constitutional challenges to the way Canada’s immigration laws recognize families, and access to regulated professions.

She has been recognized by her peers as a Leading Practitioner in immigration law for six consecutive years (2021–2026).

Warda began her career at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto and Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York, and served as a visiting attorney at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She has taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 2017, and is regularly invited to appear before committees of the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada on legislation and public policy.

Outside her practice, Warda serves on the Board of Governors of the Stratford Festival, where she chairs the Nominating Committee and serves on the Governance Committee.

She is called to the bars of Ontario and New York and speaks English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.