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Top Smart & Biggar (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver) This firm challenges the boutique label, with more lawyers and locations than most full- service firms. The firm boasts more than 80 lawyers at four offices covering three prov- inces across the country. It gained notoriety for the engineering and scientific education- al backgrounds of nearly all of its team, with most lawyers also being registered patent agents. The firm grew out of patent agency Fetherstonhaugh, when Russell Smart joined his Ottawa law practice to them in 1906, and the two are still in close union. The firm has taken more than 50 cases to the Supreme Court of Canada, and advised Amazon.com in the landmark One-Click case at the Federal Court that in November recognized a patentable business method for the first time. Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP (Toronto) LABOUR & 10 EMPLOYMENT BOUTIQUES The firm traces its roots back to 1983, when Paul Cavalluzzo, Jim Hayes, and Elizabeth Shilton teamed up to form a firm committed to social justice and equality in labour law. Now they're up to 34 lawyers in their Toronto base. "Cavalluzzo is on top. There's nothing they aren't involved in. They get a lot of high-profile work," says one union lawyer, and she's not wrong. The firm represented Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion during the judicial inquiry there, and has taken centre stage in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers' Charter challenge against back- to-work legislation that considers whether the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the right to strike. Michael J. Fraser and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada were also their clients in the landmark Supreme Court case Ontario (Attorney General) v. Fraser. There's no trade secret to getting results in ip litigation… Equal parts diligence and experience. When you go with Dimock Stratton for ip litigation, you're getting industry- leading experience, one of the hardest- working teams around, and a track record that speaks for itself. Dimock Stratton llp experience. results. 20 Queen W. 32nd fl, Toronto | 416.971.7202 | dimock.com www.CANADIAN Lawyermag.com JAN UARY 2012 39 ntitled-5 1 11-12-06 2:49 PM ntitled-2 1 11-12-06 11:26 AM What's in a name? Everything. Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law 150 York Street, Suite 400, Toronto, Canada M5H 3S5 Tel 416.941.9440 Fax 416.941.9443 E-mail info@dww.com Practical. Experience. www.dww.com www.cavalluzzo.com www.smart-biggar .ca