Allessia Chiappetta

Allessia Chiappetta is an articling student at Smart & Biggar’s Toronto office. She earned her Juris Doctor at Osgoode Hall Law School and her Master of Socio-Legal Studies at York University.

Allessia has developed a strong interest in the intersection of intellectual property, artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and innovation law. During law school, she was recognized with the Osgoode Hall Dean’s Gold Key Award and the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law.

As an Osgoode IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, Allessia provides legal support to inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies, guiding them through complex innovation and commercialization processes. In partnership with Communitech’s ElevateIP,  she assists business accelerators and incubators in equipping startups with tools to strategically manage and leverage their IP. 

Allessia is a legal researcher and blogger for the Ontario Bar Association and Communitech, providing insights on emerging legislative initiatives. Allessia also works as a research assistant to Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, contributing to various IP law projects at Osgoode. She is also a Visiting Student Researcher at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, where her interdisciplinary research focuses on AI governance, agentic AI systems, legal accountability, autonomous decision-making, and emerging regulatory frameworks

Allessia is thrilled to return to Smart & Biggar as an articling student. She looks forward to continuing to work with leaders in the field of intellectual property and benefiting from the firm’s mentorship program and collaborative environment.