Legal news and trends for Canadian in-house counsel and c-suite executives
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33 CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE JULY 2015 Lawson Lundell LLP www.lawsonlundell.com 1 Total lawyers: 121 Locations: Vancouver, 99; Calgary, 18; Yellowknife, 4 Core practice areas: Business law, including M&A, corporate finance, and securities; litigation and dispute resolution; natural resources and energy; banking; commercial real estate Key clients: BC Hydro; B2Gold Corp.; Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.; Chevron; Canfor Corporation; BMO Financial Group Affiliations: World Services Group Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP www.bdplaw.com 2 Total lawyers: 140 Locations: Calgary, 140 Core practice areas: Securities; energy; commercial transactions; banking and finance; litigation Key clients: Not disclosed. Affiliations: None Bull Housser & Tupper LLP www.bht.com 3 Total lawyers: 95 Locations: Vancouver, 95 Core practice areas: Business law, dispute resolution & litigation, infrastructure/P3, natural resources, real estate, aboriginal law, environmental, transportation/Maritime, wealth preservation, intellectual property, labour & employment, local government. Key clients: Seaspan Marine Corp.; Rio Tinto Alcan Inc.; London Drugs; the Corporation of the Township of Langley; Royal Bank of Canada Affiliations: SCG Legal Field LLP www.fieldlaw.com 4 Total lawyers: 121 Locations: Edmonton, 65; Calgary, 52; Yellowknife, 4 Core practice areas: corporate and commercial matters, litigation and dispute resolution, labour and employment, insurance, intellectual property, occupational health and safety, privacy, professional regulatory and medical malpractice issues Key clients: University of Alberta; Ellis Don; Brookfield Residential Properties Inc.; Alberta Teachers' Association; major insurance companies; major financial institutions Affiliations: SCG Legal Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP www.farris.com 5 Total lawyers: 100 Locations: Vancouver, 85; Kelowna, 12; Victoria; 4 Core practice areas: Corporate law; litigation; labour and employment; tax and private wealth management Affiliations: Lex Mundi McLennan Ross LLP www.mross.com 6 Total lawyers: 97 Locations: Edmonton, 62; Calgary, 30; Yellowknife, 5 Core practice areas: Labour and employment; corporate commercial securities; commercial litigation; insurance and risk management; energy; environmental and regulatory Key clients: TransAlta Corp.; Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.; Suncor Energy Inc.; KPMG LLP; Government of Alberta; Greyhound Transportation Corp. Grey LLP www.harpergrey.com 7 Total lawyers: 59 Locations: Vancouver, 59 Core practice areas: Administrative and regulatory law; insurance defence; commercial litigation, including defamation and shareholder disputes; environmental law; civil litigation, including medical defence work Key clients: Canadian Medical Protective Association; major insurance companies and self-insured; Canadian-based real estate investment trusts; securities brokerages and professional; multinational corporations with B.C.-based litigation Affiliations: TAGLaw International Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP www.ahbl.ca 8 Total lawyers: 82 Locations: Vancouver, 82 Core practice areas: Insurance law; commercial litigation; corporate and commercial law; banking and financial services; construction and engineering; insolvency and restructuring; intellectual property; transportation, defamation. Key clients: Airlines; financial institutions and insurance companies; professional service providers; retail companies; B.C. municipalities Affiliations: The Law Firm Alliance; The Participating Group; ARC Group Canada Inc. Parlee McLaws LLP www.parlee.com 9 Total lawyers: 86 lawyers Locations: Edmonton, 51; Calgary, 34 Core practice areas: Business law; commercial real estate; financial services; litigation, commercial and insurance defence and arbitration services; securities; oil and gas; patent and trademark Key clients: One of Canada's largest oil and gas companies; international construction company; electric generation regulator; several large property and casualty insurers; major property developers; most of Canada's major chartered banks; one of the major grocery retailers in North America Affiliations: World Services Group, USLAW Clark Wilson LLP www.cwilson.com 10 Total lawyers: 78 Locations: Vancouver, 78 Core practice areas: Commercial real estate; corporate finance and securities; corporate and commercial; business litigation; technology and intellectual property Key clients: Vancouver Airport Authority; Freyssinet Canada Ltée; Anthem Properties; Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust; British Columbia Investment Management Corp.; University of British Columbia." TO P W E ST E R N F I R M S TO P W E ST E R N F I R M S Total lawyers: 31 Location: Calgary Core practice areas: business law, power, construction, banking and financial services, product liability, tort, natural resources, securities, regulatory tribunals, bankruptcy insurance, professional negligence, employment and commercial trade secrets, and proprietary information Key clients: AltaGas Ltd., Cenovus Energy Inc., Olympia Trust Co., Shell Canada Ltd., Spartek Systems Inc., and TransCanada Energy Ltd. TO P L I T I G AT I O N B O U T I Q U E Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP www.jssbarristers.ca