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Firms providing legal services in a variety of specialty areas in Canada.
Law firms of Canada :
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Aird & Berlis
LLP
Aird & Berlis LLP — A&B for short, is a mid-size,
full-service Canadian law firm. It is located in the heart of the Bay Street
financial district of Toronto. It employs over 120 lawyers.
A&B has been rated one of the 30 largest law firms in Canada and one of
Toronto's 20 largest law firms by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in their
feature on The Largest Firms in Canada 2007.
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Bennett Jones
Bennett Jones LLP is an internationally recognized Canadian
law firm based in Calgary with branches in Edmonton, Toronto, and Ottawa. It has
a total of more than 320 lawyers and 450 staff, including a number of former
politicians, i.e a deputy prime minister of Canada and a former Canadian
ambassador to the United States of America.
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Bereskin &
Parr
Bereskin & Parr is a Canadian law firm, founded in 1965,
which specializes in all forms of intellectual property law. The firm consists
of 75 lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents and has offices in Toronto,
Montreal, Kitchener and Mississauga.
In 2006, Bereskin & Parr was ranked as the “market benchmark” for intellectual
property law in Toronto according Lexpert.ca's "2006 Who's Who in Canadian Law
Firms."
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Blake, Cassels &
Graydon
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP – Blakes for short – is a
major full-service Canadian law firm. It is known as one of the "seven sisters"
that make up the largest corporate law firms in Toronto, Canada.
Founded in 1856 by Dominick Edward Blake, Blakes now has more than 550 lawyers
in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago,
London and Beijing.
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Borden Ladner
Gervais
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (abbreviated as BLG) is a full
service Canadian law firm with over 700 lawyers and intellectual property
agents, practising in offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal,
and the Waterloo region.
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Davies Ward Phillips &
Vineberg
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP focuses on business
law. The firm acts for a wide range of leading industrial and commercial
companies and financial institutions, both public and private, in Canada, the
United States and abroad. It is known as one of the "seven sisters", which
consists of the top tier of law firms in Toronto. The firm has over 235 lawyers
over four offices located in Toronto, Montreal, New York and Paris.
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Davis LLP
Established in 1892, Davis LLP (formerly Davis & Company
LLP) is a full-service Canadian law firm with over 200 lawyers. The founding
office is in Vancouver, with other offices located in Edmonton, Calgary,
Toronto, Montreal, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Tokyo.
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Deeth Williams Wall
Deeth Williams Wall LLP is a Canadian technology and
intellectual property law firm, based in Toronto. Founded by partners from Blake
Cassels Graydon in 1994, it has consistently ranked in Lexpert's league tables
as a leading firm in the areas of technology law and intellectual property law.
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Ecojustice Canada
Ecojustice Canada (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund), is
a Canadian non-profit environmental law firm that uses litigation to defend and
protect the environment.
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Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin
Fasken Martineau is a leading international business law
and litigation firm with more than 650 lawyers and offices in Vancouver,
Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Québec City, London and Johannesburg. As a
multi-service law firm, Fasken Martineau provides strategic advice in key areas
of business law to a broad range of clients, including more than half of the
Fortune 100 companies, numerous corporations, government agencies, regulatory
and non-profit bodies, and individuals.
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Fraser Milner Casgrain
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) is one of Canada’s leading
business & litigation law firms. With more than 520 lawyers (175 litigators) it
is the fifth largest law firm in Canada as well as the largest law firm in
Western Canada. FMC is a fully integrated national partnership with offices in
Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and New York City.
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Goodmans
Goodmans LLP is a leading Canadian corporate law firm with
offices in Toronto and Vancouver. It is considered one of the "seven sisters" of
Bay Street, a group consisting of the top tier of law firms in Toronto, Canada.
Goodmans is known across Canada and internationally as a premier transactions
law firm. First established in Toronto in 1917 by David Bertram Goodman,
Goodmans LLP now has approximately 200 lawyers. The firm acts for Canada's
largest corporations, financial institutions and multinationals, while at the
same time honouring its roots in client and community service.
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Gowling
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Gowlings, is Canada's
largest full-service law firm, with over 700 professionals practising in 10
cities in Canada, Russia and the United Kingdom.
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Heenan
Blaikie
Heenan Blaikie LLP is a full service Canadian law firm. It
practices in the areas of business, labour and employment, litigation, taxation,
entertainment law and intellectual property law. The firm was founded in 1973 by
Roy Heenan, Donald Johnston, and Peter Blaikie. The firm now has approximately
460 lawyers with offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver,
Victoria, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and Trois-Rivières.
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Lang Michener
Lang Michener LLP is a full-service national law firm
founded in 1926. With over 200 professionals and offices in Toronto, Vancouver
and Ottawa.
The firm provides a complete range of legal services to Canadian and
multinational corporations by maintaining close working relationships with
highly qualified lawyers in the United States and throughout the world.
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McCarthy Tétrault
McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a full-service Canadian national
law firm with a significant presence in all major financial centres across the
country. It turned over the largest revenue of any law firm in Canada in 2006,
and was the only Canadian firm in the Top 100 firms by revenue (at position 77).
It is one of the Seven Sisters and is the third largest law firm in Canada in
terms of size with 650 lawyers. In addition to its headquarters in Toronto,
McCarthy Tétrault has offices in Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Quebec
City, and London (England) where their lawyers regularly advise on many of the
largest transactions and cases in Canada and around the world. McCarthy’s is
recognized as a top law firm by the leading international legal directories,
including the International Financial Law Review, Chambers Global: The World’s
Leading Lawyers, The Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian
Legal Lexpert Directory.
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McMillan Binch
Mendelsohn
McMillan LLP (formerly "McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP") is
a Canadian law firm headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal. The firm
specializes in business and natural resource law. It has approximately 190
lawyers.
The firm was created in a merger of McMillan Binch LLP of Toronto, which was
founded in 1903 by Newton Rowell, and Mendelsohn GP of Montreal. They position
themselves as a Central Canadian firm, and were ranked first in that category in
2006 by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. The firm shortened its name to McMillan LLP in
2008.
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Miller
Thomson
Miller Thomson LLP is a full service national law firm
established in Toronto, Canada in 1957.
The firm provides legal advice to Canadian clients and, through a network of
affiliates, serves an international client base. Offices are located in Toronto,
Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Markham and
Montréal.
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Ogilvy
Renault
Ogilvy Renault LLP is a major Canadian law firm with 450
members in offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto, and London, England.
Ogilvy Renault offers services in the areas of business law, litigation and ADR,
employment and labour law and intellectual property. Ogilvy Renault's English
and French bilingual character and proficiency in both the civil and common law
systems have led to a strong national and international presence.
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Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Osler for short) is a full
service Canadian corporate law firm. With over 400 lawyers, it is one of the
country's largest and is known as one of the "seven sisters". In addition to its
headquarters in Toronto, it also has offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Calgary, and
New York.
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Public Interest
Advocacy Centre
Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is a non-profit
public interest law firm in Canada, with offices in Ottawa and Toronto. It
serves to provide legal and research assistance to help consumer interests and
public services. The organization has been around since 1976 and is headed by
former Ottawa regional/city councillor Michael Janigan.
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Stewart McKelvey
Stewart McKelvey is a large full service Canadian law firm
based in Atlantic Canada.
In addition to its largest office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the firm has offices
in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton, New Brunswick; St. John's, Newfoundland;
and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The firm is made up of more than 220
lawyers and 300 staff. Stewart McKelvey is one of the fifteen largest law firms
in Canada.
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Stikeman Elliott
Stikeman Elliott LLP is a full service Canadian corporate
law firm. It is known as one of the "seven sisters", which consists of the seven
top tier firms in Toronto. The firm has approximately 500 lawyers over eight
offices located in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York City,
London (UK), and Sydney. It was founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser
Elliott.
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Torys
Torys LLP is a highly respected international business law
firm with 300 legal professionals in Toronto and New York offices. Torys offers
seamless cross-border services to clients on both sides of the U.S.-Canada
border and globally.
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