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Pitblado LLP MANITOBA 4 Total lawyers: 62 Office: Winnipeg Core practice areas: Business law, liti- gation, labour and employment, tax and estate planning, and Aboriginal law. Key clients: Investors Group Inc., Regional Health Authorities Manitoba Inc., Credit Union Central of of Canada, CitiFinancial, and the Winnipeg Football Club. Notable mandates: Development of the new Winnipeg football stadium; multiple appearances in seminal cases in the Supreme Court of Canada in support of Aboriginal, treaty, and con- stitutional rights; representation of the Public Utilities Board in connection with an order for a $320-million rebate to Manitoba motorists; acted on behalf of a major lender who in part financed the return of the Winnipeg Jets to the city; acted on behalf of Manitoba First Nations in the development of new casinos. Star alumni: Israel Asper, late chair- man of the board of the former Global Media Network and visionary of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights; Richard Leipsic, former gen- eral counsel and senior vice president of Canwest Global Communications Corp.; Jeff Norton, CEO of Teachers' Retirement Allowances Fund; Terry Wright, former general counsel for Investors Group. Affiliations: Meritas The firm: Pitblado is the modern-day result of the amalgamation of several firms throughout the years, and dates back as far as the 1880s. It started to pick up steam in the 1950s, when it became Manitoba counsel for the International Nickel Co. in its multimil- lion-dollar investment at Thompson. Alfred Erskine Hoskin led the opera- tion for the firm. In 1971, the partners of Pitblado Hoskin & Co. amalgam- ated with Johnston Jessiman Gardner & Twaddle to form Pitblado & Hoskin, and moved to the Richardson Building at the corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street. "Pitblado have always been a top- notch firm to deal with," said one respondent. "They are efficient, profes- sional, and intelligent." 38 OCTO BER 2011 www. CANADIAN Lawyermag.com cDougall_CL_Oct_11.indd 1 11-09-09 9:49 AM (www .pitblado.com) chArles gArdeT