Heera Elize Sen

Heera Elize Sen is an associate at Rogers Partners LLP. Her practice focuses on civil litigation, with experience in contractual disputes, regulatory matters, professional liability, institutional abuse claims, automobile accidents, and occupiers’ liability. She is known for her strong advocacy skills, particularly in complex and evolving areas of the law.

Before joining the firm as an associate, Heera articled at Rogers Partners. During her articles, she played a key role in a number of significant matters, including a case where her legal arguments on privity of contract and pure economic loss were adopted by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Heera earned her J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. During law school, she served as a judicial clerk at the Provincial Court of British Columbia and held several academic and leadership positions, including Assistant Editor of the UBC Law Review, Director of External Relations for the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (LSLAP), and research assistant to Professors Hassan Ahmad and Graham Reynolds. She received top grades in Federalism, Intellectual Property, and Medical Negligence Law. She also holds a Bachelor of Knowledge Integration with Joint Honours in Psychology from the University of Waterloo.

Heera’s academic work has also included corporate climate change litigation, corporate accountability, and trauma-informed care. She co-authored publications in the Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law and Frontiers in Psychology, and was recognized as part of the International Expert Group in Canada on Climate Change by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. As part of this initiative, she contributed substantive research and initial drafting to Canada’s National Report on Corporate Climate Litigation.

Outside of her legal practice, Heera has been involved in community-focused work. She worked as a summer teacher in Kerala, India, and assisted in developing trauma-informed care models for refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. She is fluent in English, Malayalam, Hindi, and Urdu, and conversational in Spanish and Arabic.

In her spare time, Heera enjoys kickboxing, cooking and baking, running, and calligraphy.