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TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS 2025
TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS 2025
CHANGEMAKERS
Fraser MacLean
Associate Lawyer
MacLean Law
Phone: 604 697 2820
Email: fmaclean@macleanlaw.ca
Website: macleanfamilylaw.ca
Sharon G. Druker, Ad. E.
Lawyer, Partner, and Head of Corporate Services Department
Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP
Phone: 514 393 4014
Email: sgdruker@rsslex.com
Website: rsslex.com
Al Hounsell
National Director of AI, Innovation & Knowledge
Gowling WLG
Phone: 416 862 5745
Email: al.hounsell@gowlingwlg.com
Website: gowlingwlg.com
Deepa Mattoo
Executive Director
Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
Avi Weiss
Founder
Counselwell
HUMAN RIGHTS, ADVOCACY, CRIMINAL
Joseph A. Neuberger
Managing Partner
Neuberger & Partners LLP
Phone: 416 364 3111
Email: joseph@nrlawyers.com
Website: nrlawyers.com
Jean-Michel Boudreau
Managing Partner
IMK LLP
Phone: 514 934 7738
Email: jmboudreau@imk.ca
Website: imk.ca
Pam Hrick
Executive Director and General Counsel
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)
Bennett Jensen
Director of Legal
Egale
Mark Sandler
Criminal Defence Counsel
Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Schwartzentruber LLP
GOVERNMENT, NON-PROFITS,
ASSOCIATIONS, JUDICIARY
Beth Beattie
Senior Counsel
Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
Phone: 416 402 6956
Email: beth.beattie@ontario.ca
Ritu Khullar
Chief Justice
Alberta Court of Appeal
Geoffrey Morawetz
Chief Justice
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Benjamin Perrin
Professor of Law
Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
Arif Virani
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Senior Counsel, Torys LLP
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