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Canadian LAW AWARDS 2026 IN-HOUSE AWARDS Judged on the quantity, quality, importance, and innovativeness of legal work performed during calendar year 2025 CASE AWARD Judged on a single case's size and complexity and the extent to which it set new standards of excellence in the delivery of legal services by the team COMMERCIAL LITIGATION TEAM OF THE YEAR EXCELLENCE AWARDEES � Bennett Jones LLP - Dow Chemical Canada ULC v. NOVA Chemicals Corporation, 2025 ABKB 217, 2025 ABKB 343, 2025 ABKB 467 � Bennett Jones LLP - Remington Development Corporation v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 2025 ABCA 244 � Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; Stikeman Elliott; Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP; Dentons Canada LLP - Republic of India, et al. v. CCDM Holdings, LLC, et al., 2025 CanLII 94240 � Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP; McCarthy Tetrault LLP; Bennett Jones LLP; Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP - Métis National Council Secretariat Inc. v. Chartier, 2025 ONSC 6150 � Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP; Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP - Quadrangle v. Attorney General of Canada, 2025 ONSC 4526 � Torys LLP; Stikeman Elliot LLP; Bennett Jones LLP; Loopstra Nixon LLP; Lenczner Slaght LLP; Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP; Camelino Galessiere LLP; Tyr LLP; Blaney McMurtry LLP; Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP - In Re Hudson's Bay Company, 2025 ONSC 5998 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION – IN-HOUSE This award recognizes and celebrates a leader with a minimum of 30 years of experience who has contributed significantly to advancing Canada's legal profession or justice system. 46 www.lawawards.ca THE LAWSON LUNDELL LLP AWARD FOR LAW DEPARTMENT LEADER OF THE YEAR PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Lawson Lundell is a full-service business law firm in Western and Northern Canada known for its practical and strategic approach to legal and business problems. The Firm has more than 200 lawyers located in offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Yellowknife and Kelowna. www.lawsonlundell.com EXCELLENCE AWARDEES � Corinne Pruzanski, Cadillac Fairview (CF) � Gaurav Manhas, OpenRoad Group � Jeremy Trickett, BCI (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation) � Jessica Long, Allstate Canada Group � Lorne O'Reilly, KC, Dow Chemical Canada ULC � Nickola Voegelin, University of Waterloo � Rustam Juma, Volkswagen Group Canada � Samantha Traub, Boat Rocker Studios Limited � Sue Lynn Noel, Purolator Inc. WINNER � McCarthy Tétrault LLP; Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP - Shamattawa First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 1927 WINNER � Lisa Damiani, Canadian Tire Corporation WINNER Melissa Kennedy, Sun Life