Sharan Johal

First Year of Call
2023

Areas of Practice
Construction Law

Description
Sharan Johal is an Associate in the Technology & Intellectual Property Practice Group at WeirFoulds LLP.

Prior to joining WeirFoulds, Sharan maintained a private practice where she provided clients with tailored privacy policies and terms of use for both websites and mobile applications, specializing in small Ontario businesses in the Greater Toronto Area, using digital and online reference materials and tools as a guide to ensure the use of up-to-date, accurate information. Additionally, she advised clients on best personal information management practices and cybersecurity to practically comply with Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws. Sharan also assisted in the creation of legal technology tools, developing the dataset that artificial intelligence models learned from.

Sharan earned her Juris Doctor from Queen’s University, where she won the Gordon F. Henderson Award for Best Respondent Factum and served as a student Caseworker for the Queen’s Legal Aid Clinic.