Alessandra Ottaviano
Biography
Alessandra is an associate in the personal injury group at Rochon Genova LLP.
Before joining the firm, Alessandra articled and practiced with a prominent personal injury firm in Niagara.
Alessandra holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University. During the third year of her undergraduate studies, she was selected to participate in the Wilfrid Laurier International Exchange Program and attended Univsersité Paris Dauphine on academic exchange.
Alessandra holds an LL.B (Honours) from the University of Leicester. While in law school, she was an active member of the University Mentoring Program, the Canadian Law Society, and was a finalist in the Law School’s Client Interviewing Competition.
Prior to law school, Alessandra counseled and facilitated workshops for at-risk youth in the Employment Programs and non-Residential Attendance Centre Program at the John Howard Society. She also volunteered with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and served on the Board of Directors of Community Living Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln.
Alessandra enjoys the outdoors, is an avid yogi and enjoys exploring Toronto’s eclectic food scene.
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Aviation Law
- Insurance Law
Bar Admissions
- Law Society of Upper Canada
Education
- Leicester University School of Law, Leicester, England
- LL.B., Bachelor of Laws magna cum laude – July, 2012
- Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- B.A., Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude – 2009
- Major: Communications
- Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
- International Exchange – 2009
- Major: Business & Communications
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association
Practice Areas
- Class Actions
- Personal Injury
- Accident Benefits And Tort Claims
- Back And Spinal Injuries
- Catastrophic Injuries
- Chronic Pain
- Commercial Vehicles And Public Transportation
- Depression, PTSD
- Disability Claims, Denial Of Insurance
- Facebook plays a growing role in many personal injury cases
- Head And Brain Injuries
- Major Insurance Claims
- Motorcycle Accidents And Amputation
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Occupier’s Liability
- Pedestrian And Bicycle Accidents
- Slip-And-Fall
- Wrongful Death
- FAQ’s
- Aviation Law
- Breach of Privacy
- Commercial Litigation
- Sexual Abuse/Sexual Assault
- Indigenous Rights
- Immigration