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October 2010

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Barry Spalding Total Lawyers: 27 Lawyers By Office: Saint John, 21; Moncton, 6 Core Practice Areas: insurance and personal injury; cor- porate-commercial; construction law; administrative and regulatory law Key Clients: major corporate entities in sectors such as in- surance, energy, mining, consumer products, aquaculture, and professional services Notable Mandates: lead counsel in defending three to- bacco companies in product liability litigation commenced in New Brunswick; local counsel to the province of New Brunswick in relation to N.B. Power's estimated $4-billion asset sale to Hydro-Québec; New Brunswick counsel for Emera Inc. with respect to its $300-million New Bruns- wick natural gas pipeline installation project Star Alumni: New Brunswick Court of Appeal Justice J.C. Marc Richard; David Barry, chairman and CEO, New Brunswick Securities Commission; Cyril Johnston, vice chairman, New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board Affiliations: Meritas, the ARC Group Canada Inc. The Firm: Established in 1981 and merged with White De- bow Johnston in 2001. Barry Spalding is one of the most 4 respected law firms in New Brunswick. It provides a full range of bilingual legal services and expertise to clients in Atlantic Canada and beyond. Over the past decade, the firm has de- veloped a significant expertise in the energy sector having represented clients in the natural gas and pipeline sectors with business transactions and regulatory proceedings. Don Keenan, Barry Spalding's managing partner, says things have been good at the firm of late. He adds, "We have a diverse group with a wide range of experiences, we have great litigators and great corporate commercial law- yers. And we are able to provide a full range of service to our clients. We are not the 200-person law firm. We are a small, fairly close group and I think that translates [in] how we serve the clients. We tend to know the clients of the firms just because of the size of the firm." Keenan says the firm's strength lies in its size. "It does seem that firms like ours seem to be disappearing. The larger firms seem to be getting larger. But the big change for us was adding a few experienced corporate lawyers . . . which allows us to compete for some of the larger work which we might otherwise not have. We are now in a much better position to compete." Untitled-1 1 40 OC T O BER 2010 www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com 9/17/10 8:58:16 AM ntitled-1 1 9/20/10 10:26:30 AM (barryspalding.com)

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