Sadira Garfinkel

Associate

Sadira is very knowledgeable in her focal practice areas of personal injury, sexual abuse and assault claims, medical malpractice, and disability insurance litigation. In acting for her clients, Sadira strives to approach each file in a trauma informed and client focused manner and aims to work with her clients as they navigate through the civil claims systems in order to achieve their best possible outcomes.

Sadira also works with Tapper Cuddy’s workplace investigation unit, assisting employers and organizations of all sizes in conducting investigations into complaints.  In conducting such investigations, Sadira works to engage an impartial and balanced approach where the principals of human rights and procedural fairness are of the utmost importance.

After obtaining her Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Winnipeg and Wilfrid Laurier University respectively, Sadira attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, obtaining her Juris Doctorate in 2013.  Sadira then completed her articles with Tapper Cuddy LLP and has remained with the firm since her call to the Bar in 2014.

Sadira is actively engaged with the Manitoba Bar Association, having served as the chairs of both the Young Lawyers section and the Women Lawyers Forum, and currently sits on the MBA council.

Sadira is an associate member of the Birth Injury Lawyers’ Alliance and is currently engaged in the formation of a national alliance of lawyers who act for survivors of sexual abuse as a means of sharing resources and information and engaging in advocacy.

 

Contact

sgarfinkel@tappercuddy.com
direct: 204.944.3733
fax: 204.947.2593

Legal Assistant

Natalia Wurmlinger
nwurmlinger@tappercuddy.com
direct: 204.944.3261
fax: 204.947.2593

Bar Admission

Called to the Manitoba Bar, 2014

Professional Activities

Associate at Tapper Cuddy LLP since 2014

Manitoba Bar Association Council Member

Past-Chair, Women Lawyers Forum, Manitoba Bar Association

Past-Chair, Young Lawyers’ section of the Manitoba Bar Association

Community Activities

Past-President, Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Arts Council Inc.

Practice Areas

Education

Juris Doctor, University of Manitoba, 2013

Max & Manly Isaac Prize

Master of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009

Bachelor of Arts, University of Winnipeg, 2008

Student of Distinction

Kenneth G. Hamilton Scholarship in Religious Studies

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