Top 10 Litigation boutiques
Lerners LLP (Toronto)
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP (Toronto)
Founded in 1992 when five senior lawyers broke away from McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Lenczner Slaght remains the natural choice for many large-firm lawyers and in-house counsel. "Lenczner, obviously," says a senior litigator at a Bay Street firm of their top choice. "The proportion of top-quality litiga- tors is incredible, especially the senior partners. Then you've got a string of strong up-and-comers; the Will McDowells and Peter Osbornes of the world." Lenczner's team of 44 lawyers has a diverse client list, with individuals and small businesses alongside multinationals like General Electric Co., Johnson & Johnson, and Google Inc. In the last year, the firm has steered Devonshire Trust and a director at Coventree Inc. through proceedings related to the asset backed commercial paper market, and advised the auditors to Sino-Forest Corp. in class actions brought by shareholders in the Chinese firm.
The London, Ont. full-service firm has run its Toronto outpost as a litigation boutique since 1986, when Earl Cherniak relocated his renowned trial and appellate practice to the city. Since then, the Lerners' litigation team has grown to 45 lawyers in Toronto, where it does work for Telus, LawPRO, and Gore Mutual Insurance Co., among others. The venerable Cherniak is currently handling Joe Groia's defence in his high-profile civil- ity case at the Law Society of Upper Canada. It is also one of the few firms that does both plaintiff and defence work on class actions. The firm was also co-counsel to Bank of Montreal director Robert Astley as he won a $650,000 judgment against shareholder rights activist Robert Verdun. The award included $400,000 in aggravated damages, believed to be one of the largest in Canadian history.
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