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MCKENZIE LAKE LAWYERS LLP MCKENZIELAKE.COM total lawyers: 43 office: London, Ont. core practice areas: Commercial and personal injury litigation; family law; corporate-commercial, including land development, taxation, and franchising; aboriginal law; health care law Key clients: Joseph's Healthcare London; Intact Insurance Co.; Booster Juice; Caldwell and Scugog First Nations; Boardwalk REIT, and major regional land developers Notable mandates: Caldwell First Nations Settlement; Alberta Flood class action; Infrastructure Ontario financings in excess of $1 billion; Ashley Smith inquest; representing municipal corporations; advising provincial attorney general on family law reform. star alumni: Angus L. McKenzie; William Jenkins; John McGarry; Deborah Livingston; Roland Haines; Victor Mitrow; Marlene McGrath, senior vice president of human resources at 3M; W. Kirk James, chief operations officer of Hub International Ltd. (Chicago). affiliations: Court of Arbitration for Sports; Beijing Arbitration Commission; the London Court of International Arbitration; the Dubai International Arbitration Centre through the firm's counsel, Richard H. McLaren. the firm: McKenzie Lake is the product of the merger of McKenzie Nash Bryant and Ross Bennett and Lake in 1998. Those firms had roots in the London community extending back to the 1930s, through C.J.F. Ross, and to the early 1950s, through A.E. Shepherd and Angus L. McKenzie. Its core practice is land development but it has also branched into specialist areas such as health law and aboriginal law. The firm also has a focus on alternative dispute resolution. "Professional, excellent client service, knowledgeable," is how one respondent described the firm. Another said: "Their lawyers are also available for immediate consultation during off-hours and our company finds them very accessible." Lawyer Michael Lake says: "We have national clients and around the province. A few are in Toronto." Regarding the firm's focus on alternative dispute resolution, he says, "We're looking all the time for affordable reasonable alternatives." He adds, while the firm does not want to cover all practice areas, it recognizes it has "holes to fill"; environmental law is an area of interest at present. 10 CONTINUING THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE PROUDLY NAMED ONE OF ONTARIO'S TOP 10 REGIONAL FIRMS BY CANADIAN LAWYER MAGAZINE Scotia Plaza, 40 King Street West, Suite 3100, Toronto, ON, Canada M5H 3Y2 Tel: 416 865 6600 Fax: 416 865 6636 www.gardiner-roberts.com Untitled-3 1 www.CANADIAN L a w ye r m a g . c o m 13-08-14 11:12 AM September 2013 45

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