Karishma Patel

Practice Areas

Employment Law

Location

Calgary

Experience

Karishma Patel is an Alberta employment lawyer and Associate with Samfiru Tumarkin LLP’s Labour and Employment Law practice group. Working out of the firm’s Calgary office, she provides effective advice and clear results for her clients in Alberta.

Her practice encompasses a broad range of workplace issues impacting employees including:

• Wrongful dismissals in Alberta
• Alberta severance packages
• Dismissals for cause and without cause in Alberta
• Constructive dismissals and changes to employment
• Employment contract drafting and disputes
• Employee misclassification
• Workplace harassment and sexual harassment
• Discrimination at work
• Temporary layoffs in Alberta

Prior to joining Samfiru Tumarkin, Karishma articled at a personal injury firm and then worked at a full-service law firm in Calgary where she gained substantive courtroom and advocacy experience.

Karishma has volunteered with the prestigious Innocence Project and Pro Bono Law Alberta.

Karishma is fluent in Hindi and Gujarati. In her spare time, she loves to travel, cook and hike; and also runs a food blog on Instagram.

A huge European football fan, Karishma supports Chelsea Football Club and the German National Football team.