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™ Bereskin & Parr LLP Founded in 1965 by Daniel Bereskin and Richard Parr, the firm has grown to 58 lawyers and become one of the top IP firms in the land. With offices in Toronto, Montreal, Mississauga, Ont., and Kitchener/Waterloo, Ont., this is a boutique that has certainly spread its wings. It boasts a client list includ- ing pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Canada Inc., the Royal Canadian Mint, and Sprint Communications. "If you're looking for someone to handle work in a particular field, be it bio-tech or computers or whatever, they have the experts with the backgrounds that can handle that kind of work," says one in-house counsel whose company uses the firm. www.bereskinparr.com Deeth Williams Wall LLP Toronto's Deeth Williams Wall was created by a group of lawyers who all, at one point or another, practised at Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, but opened their own shop as conflict issues increasingly popped up. They have since grown their boutique, with 19 lawyers now representing notable clients like Bell, Interac, The Toronto Star, and pharma mammoth Biovail. The firm began operations in 1994 with seven lawyers, and has since built its strong reputation by offering top-notch IP, information technology, regulatory, and IP-focused litigation services. www.dww.com Dimock Stratton LLP Also formed in 1994, Ron Dimock and Bruce Stratton have grown their firm to a stable of 18 lawyers. The firm represented Research In Motion Ltd. for two years in a pat- ent lawsuit, successfully defended a patent case for Boston Scientific Corp. in an action brought by Johnson & Johnson Inc. over coron- ary stents, and advocated for free- lance journalist Heather Robertson in a class-action lawsuit against The Globe and Mail, which went to the Supreme Court of Canada. One lawyer says the firm rises to the top since, quite simply, it "gets the most and best cases because it has very good lawyers." www.dimock.com Untitled-6 1 Client's IP at Risk? You Want Us on Your Side. Our bite is even worse than our roar. We are accomplished trial lawyers with years of study in science and engineering and we have the courtroom successes to prove it. It's wild out there, so if your client's IP is threatened – talk to us. it all starts somewhere www.ridoutmaybee.com Editors of the Canadian Patent Reporter www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com M ARCH 2010 41 2/23/10 4:09:55 PM Top INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 10 BOUTIQUES