From her perch at her downtown Toronto office, Karima Kanani deals with hospitals and healthcare providers across Ontario. As a partner at Miller Thomson LLP, Kanani leads the corporate/commercial team in the firm’s health industry group, handling everything from large-scale mergers to corporate governance and procurement of goods and services. Her clients include small social-service charities and large multi-site hospitals. She’s a business lawyer through and through, yet her choice to pursue the JD/MSW was deliberate.
“I think there’s a misperception sometimes about the combined program, that those who would pursue the law/social work degree are usually looking to work as activists and in the social justice areas,” says Kanani, who graduated in 2002. What the social work degree gave her, she adds, is invaluable in her corporate practice: a different approach to dealing with problems and teams, and an entire set of skills she would not have acquired otherwise.
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