OP Lawyers in the Media
Featured Interviews & Publications
Our Calgary lawyers are frequently featured in interviews, magazines, and online publications, where they share insights on legal developments, entrepreneurship, and real-world issues.
👉 Explore our latest media features below.
Amanda earned her law degree from the University of Southampton, bringing her diverse background and entrepreneurial spirit into a new dimension of advocacy and service. Her legal journey was motivated by a passion for justice, compassion, and helping others navigate life's most challenging moments. She became a co-founder of OP Lawyers LLP, a trusted Calgary-based law firm specializing in family, employment, and civil litigation. As a dedicated founding partner, Amanda leads with heart and integrity, guiding clients through difficult legal battles with a personalized touch. Her leadership emphasizes advocacy, empathy, and a firm commitment to justice, making her a formidable and compassionate legal advocate.
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Your brand represents years of sweat, strategy, and success. Don’t let a personal crisis undermine it. Whether you’re entering a new relationship, already partnered, or navigating separation, proactive planning is key.
Separation and divorce often represent one of the most difficult chapters anyone can face. With the right safeguards in place, losing control of your reputation, brand and livelihood does not have to be part of the outcome. Protect your brand so it can continue to thrive even during separation and divorce.
Mani Peydayesh is Co-Founder of OP Lawyers LLP, practicing primarily in family law.
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Tired of the perfectionism and polished narratives dominating entrepreneur events, Amanda and Shahr set out to bring authenticity back into the spotlight. They created a platform that showcases the real journeys behind entrepreneurship, stories of risk, sacrifice, resilience, and reinvention.
As professionals themselves, Shahr, a venture capitalist with Plug and Play, and Amanda, a lawyer, co-founder of OP Lawyers, and co-founder of a local café, were exhausted by events asking founders, “How are you so successful?” instead of the questions that uncover who entrepreneurs become when things fall apart.
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Because clarity today prevents conflict tomorrow
In the fast-paced world of business, handshakes and verbal agreements feel efficient. They’re not. Regardless of your enterprise’s size, every aspect of management and ownership demands written documentation.
From shareholder agreements and partnership structures to employment contracts and supply chains, no business undertaking should proceed without a written agreement governing the relationship with the relevant parties.
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OP Lawyers is proud to have received the 2025 Certificate of Honours from CICBA in recognition of our commitment to community volunteerism.
We are grateful to be part of a community that values service, collaboration, and the collective effort to build a stronger future togteher.
Thank you CICBA for this recognition and for the work you do in bringing people together and strenghtening our community.
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YWCA Calgary
As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you for your trust, your support, and for being part of our community throughout the year.
This holiday season, our team is deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to spend time with the families at the YW in Calgary, and experience that reminded us how important compassion, care and community truly are.
During the holidays and beyond, we encourage you to support the mission of the YW in Calgary. Their work provides safety, shelter, and essential support for women and children fleeing violence and hardship.
Amanda Ovaici and Shahr Savizi co-founded FuckUp Nights YYC, a platform that demystifies failure for entrepreneurs.
Amanda, a first generation Canadian trailblazer, has built an impactful career as a lawyer specializing in family, employment, and civil law. Passionate about advocating for marginalized voices, she combines her legal expertise with commitment to building vibrant communities. Amanda co founded Café Alchemist, a community space inspired by global travels.
Everyone fails at some point in their life, and entrepreneurs are no exception. However, what sets successful entrepreneurs apart from the rest is their ability to learn from these failures and move forward without letting them hold them back.
What’s more, by learning about the mistakes others have made, you can potentially avoid making them yourself.
FuckUp Nights Calgary creates the space for entrepreneurs to collide, network, and find ways to support one another — a success in and of itself!
Local Entrepreneurs Bond Over Failures (and Overcoming Them) at F.U.N. YYC Events
The event brings together entrepreneurial types to hear speakers share their worst start-up screw-ups, and the tales of how they survived — and often thrived — despite them.
Ovaici believes one of the reasons F.U.N. events are so well-received is that they foster connections between newer and more-established entrepreneur types. “Our goal is essentially to facilitate relationships between people who are thinking of taking that step into business, or are operating a start-up, with people who are currently going through struggles or who have overcome them,” she says. “Pairing them together nurtures our business community in Calgary that much more.”
In this episode, host Sydney Johnson is joined by co-founders Shahr Savizi-Smed and Amanda Ovaici as they take us through the journey of creating Fuckup Nights YYC, a platform dedicated to destigmatizing failure in entrepreneurship. They delve into the origins of their friendship and how it fueled the inception of Fuckup Nights YYC.
Through insightful discussions, they explore the mission and its global counterparts, emphasizing that failure is not just a possibility but an inevitable part of the entrepreneurial journey. Acknowledging failure is crucial for fostering innovation and risk-taking, as it provides valuable lessons that propel growth.
To determine the best lawyers and law firms catering to the employment industry, Canadian HR Reporter sourced feedback from HR leaders over a period of 15 weeks. The research team began by conducting a survey with a wide range of HR leaders to determine what they value in the law firms they collaborate with. The in-depth information gleaned from this survey enabled the research team to assign weighted values to the services offered by law firms to their employment clients.
The research team also spoke to hundreds of employment professionals across the country by phone, asking them to rate the employment law firms and lawyers they had worked with over the previous 12 months. In addition, the team sought the opinions of employment lawyers themselves to find out which law firms they would recommend besides their own.
At the end of the research period, the law firms and lawyers that received the highest rankings in work quality, specialist expertise, and client service were declared 5-Star award winners in the field of employment law.
Video Insights
What Makes You a Bad Employee Might Make You a Great Employer | The Karmali Exchange
I specifically asked for an all female entrepreneurs panel because let’s face it, when creating my business, although I faced challenges, they were different challenges from what women face. So we invited Jenn Lofgren, Founder of Incito Executive and Leadership Development, Amanda Ovaici, Co-founder of Cafe Alchemist and YYC FuckUp Nights, and Shashi Behl, Founder and Owner of Joydrop.
F*ckUp Nights YYC - January 2026!!
Welcome to FuckUp Nights YYC, where bold entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders take the stage to share their biggest mistakes, epic flops, and the lessons that changed everything. It’s raw, honest, inspiring, and surprisingly hilarious.
If you love real stories, real people, and real growth, hit play and join us at the next event. Calgary’s most authentic night out is waiting.
OP Lawyers is a Calgary law firm offering trusted legal guidance in family law, divorce law, employment law, civil law, construction law and protection orders, serving clients across Calgary and Alberta.