Will Tao is the principal/founder at Heron Law Offices, leading a boutique practice in Canadian immigration, refugee, citizenship, and administrative law. His focus is on complex immigration litigation and applications for those seeking temporary residence, permanent residence, and citizenship. His current work includes challenging the government’s use of Automated Decision Making (the subject of his LLM thesis at Allard/UBC School of Law), navigating inadmissibility matters involving security/misrepresentation; and finding creative immigration pathways for applicants in the tech, arts, entertainment, and sports industries. Tao is a regular lecturer/contributor to CLE publications and has authored peer-reviewed articles. He is frequently cited by both media and academia, has testified twice as an expert witness in front of the Parliamentary Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, served as an expert affiant before the Federal Court (FC), and consulted with the Treasury Board Secretariat. A member of the FC’s AI Working Group and co-founder of AIMICI, a civil society organization monitoring legal developments in the public use of AI. Tao has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada, received numerous CBA Awards and is a Clawbies Hall of Fame inductee for his legal blogging.
