Affiliated Attorney
Véronique Malka
NEW JERSEY & NEW YORK
ADMITTED TO THE BAR
Ontario: 1995
New Jersey: 2006 (FLC)
New York: 2018 (FLC)
EDUCATION
Mcgill University, B.C.L., LLB
Véronique Malka has collaborated extensively with the Law Firm of Kalman Samuels, Attorneys in matters Immigration and Hague Convention applications for child abduction. Her office is situated in New Jersey from where she works as a Foreign Legal Consultant (FLC) handling clients from New York, New Jersey and the surrounding areas.
Véronique is the founder and managing partner of the Canadian Law Group, a premier Canadian mobility firm based in the New York City area. She was born and raised in Montreal and graduated from McGill University law school (where she was exceptionally admitted at the young age of 17). During law school, she worked for the Canadian Jewish Congress advocating for the extradition of former nazi war criminals from Canada. She was called to the Bar of Ontario and worked for a Bay Street law firm and for the Ontario government in Toronto for a decade.
In 2005, she moved to the USA and quickly saw a need for local Canadian legal help. And that’s when The Canadian Law Group was formed. With close to 30 years of legal experience under her belt, today Veronique leads a growing team of Canadian cross-border specialists at CLG and divides her time between the USA and Canada. Her work focuses on cross-border mobility needs of corporations and finding creative strategies for individuals seeking to move to Canada. She is regularly consulted on matters of International Child Abductions under the Hague Convention, known as an expert in that field. Veronique has shared her mobility views on TV and radio in Canada and the U.S.A., and frequently presents on legal panels all over the world.
Most notably, Veronique was asked by The Honorable Irwin Cotler, Professor Emeritus at McGill Law Faculty and former Justice Minister of Canada, to act as Executive Director for the new human rights foundation called the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Passionate about human rights, Veronique seized the opportunity to do this Secondment in 2017. Known for her keen legal instincts and quick understanding of people’s needs, Veronique creativity and passion are not limited to law.