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www.canadianlawyermag.com 39 Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The firm's roots reach back to 1915, opening in Edmonton as Woods Sherry Collison & Field. It opened a Calgary office in 1996 after a merger and likewise for Yellowknife in 2001. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own," said 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. According to lawyers at Field Law, they have a unique arrangement by which they foster mentorship. Atwal says the firm's approach to mentorship is a "key differentiator " between Field Law and other, similar-size firms. Lawyers are assigned a mentor who matches their desired career trajectory and personality and the firm has an education FAST FACTS: FIELD LAW program called Field Excel, which consists of internal seminars for partners, associates and students to teach them about a substantive area of the law or the business side of a law firm, such as marketing and administration. "They can be some of the most basic topics, like how to develop a law practice, how to network, how to keep time, right up to much more complex and sophisticated concepts like law firm management," says Kowalchuk. As Alberta's oil-driven economy continues to struggle, Field Law's wide-ranging practice and investment in young lawyers could maintain the financial stability necessary to allow the firm to continue investing in its community fund program, year after year, into the future. NUMBER OF L AW Y ERS More than 120 NUMBER OF OFFICE S 3 NUMBER OF Y E A RS IN OPER AT ION 104 NUMBER OF DIFFERENT NAMES OVER THE YEARS 39 "The economy is always challenging in Alberta, with the cyclical effect of the oil industry." Jeremiah Kowalchuk, managing partner