Lawyer Jasmine Daya: I watched law shows on television, could see myself in a courtroom

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Jasmine Daya, 39, is the managing principal of Jasmine Daya & Co. and a personal injury lawyer in Toronto. A few of her specialties are claims involving minors, bullying, cyberbullying and club assaults involving bouncers and nightclub security.. It wasn’t, “Are you going to university?” It was, “What university?” South Asian, they’d immigrated from Nairobi in 1974, working hard to send my brother and me to private schools in Toronto.

, my dad an accountant. I’d commute with him to school, my brother in the back seat. From Grade 5 until I was 16, he taught me about balance sheets, income statements, spreadsheets, shares and corporations. Suddenly – those car rides, working at my parents’ restaurants, my education – my experience enabled me to run a profitable law firm.

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