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TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS 2022
SPECIAL REPORT
2022
MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS
Top 25
CHANGEMAKERS
Quinn Martin Ross
Managing Partner and CEO
The Ross Firm Professional Corporation
Phone: 519 525 3570
Email: qmross@rossfirm.com
Website: rossfirm.com
Carla Swansburg
Chief Executive Officer
ClearyX
Daniel Lee
Associate
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Erin Durant
Founder
Durant Barristers
Paul-Erik Veel
Partner
Lenczner Slaght
GOVERNMENT, NON-PROFITS,
ASSOCIATIONS
Andrea Menard
President, Owner, Director
Indigenous Connect
Phone: 403 333 5038
Email: andrea@indigenousconnect.org
Website: indigenousconnect.org
Bradley Regehr
Lawyer, QC
Maurice Law
Phone: 204 832 2150
Email: bregehr@mauricelaw.com
Website: mauricelaw.com
Brandon Silver
International Human Rights Lawyer,
Director of Policy and Projects
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Louis Tsilivis
Director of Budget and Finance
Office of the Mayor of Toronto
Mahmud Jamal
Judge
Supreme Court of Canada
HUMAN RIGHTS, ADVOCACY,
CRIMINAL LAW
Geoffrey E. Budden, QC
Partner
Budden & Associates
Phone: 709 576 0077
Email: geoff@buddenlaw.com
Website: buddenlaw.com
Alana Robert
Associate
McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Alexandra Chyczij
President
Ukrainian Canadian Congress
Louise Arbour
Senior Counsel, Commercial Litigation Group
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Rosanne Kyle
Partner
Mandell Pinder LLP
BUSINESS
Bahar Hafizi
Managing Partner
BH Legal
Benjamin Na
Partner
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
Brock Gibson
Chair
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Leila Rafi
Partner
McMillan LLP
Pina D'Agostino
Law Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School
Heather Platt
Chief Legal Officer
Metrolinx
Hubert Lai
University Counsel
University of British Columbia
Kikelomo Lawal
Executive Vice President and
Chief Legal Officer
CIBC
Steven Ngo
Counsel
Rivian
Thomas Kim
Chief Legal Officer and
Company Secretary
Thomson Reuters
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