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TOP ONTARIO REGIONAL FIRMS LERNERS LLP LERNERS.CA 5 total lawyers: 112 lawyers by office: 69 in London, Ont.; 43 in Toronto core practice areas: Plaintiff personal injury; medical negligence defence; appellate advocacy; commercial litigation; business law Key clients: CMPA; Conrad Black; Ellis Don Construction Ltd.; State Farm; Verspeeten Cartage Ltd. Notable mandates: Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays; Walker v. Ritchie; Kerr v. Danier Leather Inc.; St. Jude Medical class action. star alumni: Nathalie Des Rosiers, dean of common law, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; David Shore, television producer; Ontario Superior Court justices Ian F. Leach and Mary Anne Sanderson; former Superior Court justices Thomas Granger and John C. Kennedy; Ontario Court Justice Margaret McSorley. affiliations: none the firm: Lerner & Lerner was established in 1929. Its London, Ont., office offers a full range of legal services while its Toronto office, which opened in 1986, specializes in litigation and was last year identified by Canadian Lawyer as one of the country's top 10 litigation boutiques. A respondent remarked: "This firm has a real diversity in the areas of litigation practice — defence and plaintiffs' work, insurance work, class actions, group actions, individual actions, traditional personal injury and civil sexual assault, and a commitment to advancing women litigators within its ranks." "We're well known and established and there's a real commitment to excellence in legal services," says managing partner Ian Dantzer. The firm is considering expanding into southwestern Ontario. "We've been looking at Chatham and Windsor and other communities . . . it's a tough investment unless it's someone who's really committed to the firm structure," he says. THE Perfect Fit Proud to be named one of Ontario's Top 10 Regional Firms by Canadian Lawyer magazine We deliver Fogler, Rubinoff LLP | Lawyers | 77 King Street West, Suite 3000, TD Centre, Toronto, M5K 1G8 | 416.864.9700 | foglers.com Untitled-1 1 www.CANADIAN L a w ye r m a g . c o m 13-08-22 4:42 PM September 2013 39