Best in LAW 2024
Spotlighting the best law professionals driving higher standards and leading the profession forward
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Spotlighting the best law professionals driving higher standards and leading the profession forward
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faced divergent challenges in 2024, some specific to the law sector and others due to wider influences.
The major issues the industry grappled with were:
• the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and how to harness it effectively
• most major practice areas experiencing growth from a demand perspective
• increasing cost bases
• ESG becoming more of a business fundamental
• integrating law firm software and systems
• creating a positive remote culture
The Global Best in Law 2024 recognizes legal award winners across all of the year’s special reports featured in Canadian Lawyer, Australasian Lawyer, and NZ Lawyer.
There was increased profitability in the sector as the Q3 2024 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index
(LFFI), illustrates a strong outlook for law firms with overall demand growing by 3.6 percent compared to Q3 2023.
This was led by the countercyclical practices of litigation, up 4 percent, followed by labour and employment, up 2.9 percent, compared to Q3 2023. Notably, the first two quarters of 2024 showed signs of a slowdown here, yet in Q3, demand hit its strongest growth pace in more than a year.
Real estate, increasing by 3.7
percent, led the growth in transactional practices. The growth across practice areas indicates a more sustainable expansion than what law firms experienced during the post-pandemic boom.
Raising standards
Technology has been a major impactor over the last 12 months for all top law firms in their operations, but also their caseloads.
Canada’s Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers’ partner Rose Leto shared details of the firm’s noteworthy litigation launched on behalf of Ontario School Boards against some of the social media giants. The case involves 12 school boards and two private schools commencing a mass tort litigation against:
• Meta Platforms Inc. and its subsidiaries
• Snap Inc. and its subsidiaries
• TikTok Ltd. and its subsidiaries
Leto says, “What we’ve appreciated through consultation with many stakeholders is that the increased use of social media is directly impacting the student’s ability to receive an education and to learn. So, it takes a multifaceted approach as it affects their concentration, their focus, and their mental health challenges as well.”
The firm’s vision is to be a problem solver and to understand the challenges that face society as a whole.
“We then set out to help in whatever way we can to address those chal-
lenges,” explains Leto. “Social media just happens to be the most recent of those endeavours, but over the last year or so, we’ve resolved a mass torts claim against one of the vaping giants, again, for its harm to society, and in being practical problem solvers.”
Similarly, Gluckstein Lawyers is exploring new pathways and have formed three strategic partnerships with Nicholson Gluckstein, Rastin Gluckstein, and Jellinek Ellis Gluckstein.
Some areas they focus on include:
• birth injury
• medical malpractice
• medical vehicle accidents
• class action and mass torts
• catastrophic injury
The firm is now part of the Birth Injury Lawyers Alliance (BILA), which promotes the effective representation of children and families affected by avoidable injuries occurring at or around the time of
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birth. Members of BILA practice law in every province and territory in Canada, excluding Quebec.
They also created a Sexual Abuse Lawyers Alliance (SALA), aligning top of their field lawyers across the country to ensure the best possible care for clients, depending on which province they need help in.
Being a family-owned business, Gluckstein Lawyers leverages those values when servicing clients.
“Clients should be treated like family and given the same courtesy and care, even when their case ends,” shares owner and managing partner, Charles Gluckstein, who succeeded his father, Bernard. “It’s important for us to continue to care for them in their lives, and not just hand them a cheque and say goodbye, but hopefully they will keep in touch and bring us into other parts of their lives.”
That culture not only extends to clients but permeates throughout the entire organization.
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“We instill it in our staff, too. Many of their children have worked for us, and we encourage them to get involved with community events. Some of them work throughout Canada and the US, so we try to bring them together as many times as possible, to make sure they know they are part of our extended family,” Gluckstein says.
Thomson Rogers – who will celebrate its 90th year in business in 2025 – has also demonstrated leadership in personal injury law, family law, civil, municipal, and land use litigation across 2024.
The firm, which won a landmark case at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in January, which saw a groundbreaking $1.5 million punitive damages award by a Toronto jury in the case of Baker vs. Blue Cross Life InsuranceCompanyofCanada, solidifying the largest known punitive damages ever awarded in a long-term
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disability claim in Canada.
“It’s a vindication, not only of our client, but of the skill set and the excellence of the lawyers that brought the case forward, because that’s our appellate court saying that they agreed with our case after examination,” says managing partner, Stephen D’Agostino. “That was a great way to start the year and was a real high point.”
The firm’s core values are:
• excellence
• collaboration
• innovation
“At a firm our size, with head count of about 100 people, we’re still small enough that everybody’s face is recognizable. Having a common set of values is important. Through our hiring process, people understand who we are quickly, and they judge whether they think they’re going to be a fit in
our environment,” says D’Agostino.
New playing field
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools by lawyers and firms to speed up processes and increase efficiency elevated again this year. According to data from Business Research Insights , the global legal AI software market size was:
• US$0.51 billion in 2024
• projected to reach US$3.64 billion by 2032
• exhibiting a CAGR of 27.64 percent during the forecast period
Thomson Reuters’ Future of Professionals Report identifies trends that impact the legal industry – the economy, different generational cohorts, impending regulatory changes – as GenAI is the frontrunner by a significant margin. Some of its findings include:
• 77 percent of the lawyers surveyed say it will have a significant or high impact on the future of law.
• AI is predicted to significantly affect the strategy of 94 percent of corporations, resulting in greater investment, according to C-Suite respondents. The most significant areas of influence are likely to be operational strategy and product/service strategy.
• 74 percent of law firms believe AI is a “force for good” in their profession.
However, D’Agostino insists there is still a debate on whether AI is a “party trick”.
“It’s been with us for a couple of years now, but this year it made the big jump into the mainstream. We’ve implemented a test program, where we’ve given AI tools to a third of our lawyers, to determine what’s good and what’s not. As part of our code of excellence, I can’t roll out a tool that’s not going to help our clients,” he explains. “But on the other hand, it’s important that we have the best tools from a competitive advantage point of view.”
The firm is conducting another test program in February 2025, underscoring its considered approach when adopting AI.
“It’s almost become a full-time job for our staff, looking at AI, and ensuring that things like hallucination aren’t a risk, and that prompt engineering is a skill that we can pass on to our lawyers and students as we implement these tools,” D’Agostino says. “It’s a cloud that’s sitting over the top of us, or maybe it’s a ray of sunshine. As an industry, we will understand better in the coming years if it’s really going to be useful.”
Gluckstein Lawyers has embraced new technologies that allows the firm to conduct research and write medical summaries and management cases faster. These innovations also help the firm communicate with clients more efficiently.
“When we look at research tools, there is AI that allows us to crunch the law quickly and get to a summary,
build our factums and legal briefs in short order,” reveals Gluckstein.
“We don’t have to delegate it to other lawyers, so we speed up time and have answers for our clients very quickly. For medical summaries, we can get through records swiftly to move the case along. Our lawyers are very efficient now on their own, as we have all sorts of drafting tools with (Microsoft) Copilot and other AI-enhanced products,” he says. Although the firm uses AI, Gluckstein believes it should not be the final product.
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more engaged and directly supporting our clients.”
However, she cautions that AI needs to be used effectively, and the firm’s greatest asset is ensuring that every touchpoint with clients is designed to address problems.
Leto says, “AI is not a substitute for the knowledge and expertise of our staff and lawyers. While we absolutely are engaging in AI and we’re leveraging it, we’re doing it in a way that continues to support our greatest asset in our people and in a way that
“We’ve realigned our vision to be the best in Canada at our practice area”
CHARLES GLUCKSTEIN, GLUCKSTEIN LAWYERS
“It’s taking over a delegated task, but once you get it back, you still have to review and edit it, ensuring that it’s accurate,” he says. “Lawyers must be careful when they’re submitting anything to another law firm, the court or client that it’s accurate and precise. Never take shortcuts and just assume an AI product did a good job, just as you wouldn’t if you gave it to an articling student or a junior lawyer, as you would never expect their first draft to be good enough to finalize.”
Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers is also monitoring tech advancements, including AI and case management programs.
Leto comments, “By engaging in technology that frees up our staff and our lawyers’ time, it allows them to be
continues to provide that personalized service to our clients.”
So far, across the firm, there has been a positive reaction to AI. “We are mindful it has a role, but again, it doesn’t replace the human interaction that we feel our clients deserve,” adds Leto.
Moving with the times
Leading law firms were forced to negotiate varying challenges throughout 2024. Whether they were economic pressures; a rise in cyberattacks; changes in legislation, regulation, and compliance; or adjusting to a remote world – they still managed to thrive.
“There’s a huge appetite for lawyers with privacy and technology experience,” explains Travis Usher, partner
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with ZSA Legal Recruitment (Canada).
“This is likely partly due to legislation, at least on the privacy side, but it’s also very market driven.”
Gluckstein Lawyers bolstered its communication with clients to ensure that its systems were proofed against potential data breaches and attacks.
“We have texting capability in our software because email is so riddled with fraud and misuse. We really had to make sure our technology is secure and that we have good lines of communication to clients and staff,” comments Gluckstein.
“We also use an inter-office texting system on a secure closed network, so
expand to a second collaborative day. Our experience is that when we’re having those face-to-face meetings, were just so much more productive than when we’re trying to chase people online.”
Gluckstein Lawyers also faces challenges when it comes to ever-changing government regulation.
“They’re now suggesting bringing in no-fault insurance in Alberta, as they have done in British Columbia. That means we face challenges in insuring motor vehicle accident victims’ rights, as the coverage is constantly getting whittled down,” says Gluckstein.
“[In 2024, we] saw the introduction
“We’re able to diligently and efficiently move our matters forward, and with word-of-mouth and our reputation, we have attracted new work and clients”
cial nature rather than a personal injury nature. So, we’re forced to go to other provinces that have personal injury as a dominant component,” says Gluckstein.
The result of the US presidential election may also have an impact on business.
“Whenever Republicans take office, it usually leads to tort reform in the US. We could see a ripple up here that affects us. Some of the mass torts that we’re involved in have a US component, where if something negative happens because of legislation by Congress, we could be affected in Canada,” he explains.
Changing the face of law
For the top law firms, “ESG” and “DEI” are far more than progressive acronyms – they are about real and impactful change.
we don’t have to use email.”
For Thomson Rogers, striking the balance between the flexibility of remote work and the collaboration of being in the office can be difficult.
“Like many Toronto law firms, we’re in the office three days and remote for two days a week. We’ve recognized that we’re better when we’re all together, so we organize our in-office days to ensure that we are all there at once,” shares D’Agostino.
“We have a community day once a week, but in January 2025, it will
of a plan that now leads motor vehicle insurance holders to have optional coverage for what used to be mandatory. So, in an effort to reduce premiums, these victims will now come to us with almost no coverage because they’ve decided to opt out and that’s going to make our jobs much harder in obtaining compensation.”
With regulation in the class action sector, the firm is forced to think outside the box.
“If you are bringing a class action in Ontario, it must be more of a finan-
Taking the lead is Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers, which has addressed the issue of men dominating the upper tier of the legal profession. Nearly 50 percent of the firm’s partners are in leadership positions.
Leto shares, “We strive to have policies and procedures in place that reflect the economic realities that move forward to be more sustainable, and that consider all the DEI initiatives and have not only lawyers or staff within the firm, but to have those be representative in positions of leadership.”
And she continues, “We equally are very active in speaking about the
STEPHEN D’AGOSTINO, THOMSON ROGERS
impact of DEI on the medical care of our clients, and we’re working to educate ourselves as lawyers and staff in the trauma informed approach to litigation. Our clients are coming at this with their own perspectives and experiences, and in our view, there’s been a significant impact in patient care, and we’re looking to educate and improve that as much as we can.”
Gluckstein Lawyers is also proud of its DEI outreach. The firm has a diverse workforce and organizes webinars along with in-house services.
“We have a very specific campaign for the Indigenous community. We do land acknowledgments at every webinar and conference, and we’re very proud of our policies around that,” comments Gluckstein.
“We think we’re leaders and had several webinars in 2024 directed
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“If we can have a positive interaction with our clients and leave them better than how we found them and have a positive impact on their life, there’s nothing more important than that”
ROSE LETO, NEINSTEIN PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS
specifically at promoting that among other firms and helping them educate and be more aware of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The firm also has a podcast, Butter Torts, which is innovative and covers non-legal issues affecting the community and DEI. It has also added a YouTube channel.
“We feel proud that we’re able to contribute to community, education, and leadership in that way,”
Gluckstein says.
Echoing these sentiments is D’Agostino, who highlights that clients demand progress in terms of inclusion and equity.
“We as a firm recognize that our clients want to see themselves reflected in the people who are serving them. I think they believe that is important, and to a great extent, it is the driver of diversity in our business,” he says.
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Ole Mitrevski Special Counsel Massons
Peter O’Brien Principal Solicitor O’Brien Criminal and Civil Solicitors
Philip Ware General Counsel Stanwell Corporation Limited
Rex Afrasiabi Principal M A Legal
Robert Chen Legal Counsel Monoova
Shabnum Cassim Special Counsel Gadens
Shannon Finch Group General Counsel Westpac Banking Corporation
Shanon Mirels Employment Lawyer McDonald Murholme
Tony Damian Partner
Herbert Smith Freehills
Toufic Bazouni Managing Director New South Lawyers
Trent Hancock Principal Jewell Hancock Employment Lawyers
Zile Yu Managing Partner Quantum Law Group
CANADA
David Sowemimo Associate Lawyer
James H. Brown & Associates
davids@watchmakerlaw.com
Website: watchmakerlaw.com/
Joven Narwal, KC Partner, Narwal Litigation LLP Narwal Litigation LLP
Phone: 604 681 2226
Email: admin@narwallit.com Website: narwallitigation.com
Sarah Teich
Chief Executive Officer Human Rights Action Group
Phone: 647 559 9595
Email: steich@rightsactiongroup.org Website: rightsactiongroup.org/
Allan Ritchie
Managing Partner Loopstra Nixon LLP
Phone: 416 748 4754
Email: aritchie@LN.Law
Website: loopstranixon.com/
SPECIAL REPORT
MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS
Leonard S. Tony Mandamin, IPC
Witten LLP
Phone: 780 701 3774
Email: lmandamin@wittenlaw.com
Website: lmandamin@wittenlaw.com
David Luther
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
WSIB Ontario
Phone: 1 647 534 0149
Email: david_luther@wsib.on.ca Website: wsib.on.ca
May Cheng
Partner
Dipchand LLP
Phone: (647) 955 6180
Email: mcheng@dipchand.com
Website: dipchand.com/firm/ may-m-cheng
Adam Goldenberg
Partner
McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Ali Ehsassi
Member of Parliament/Chair Foreign Affairs Committee
Canadian Parliamentarian
Alyssa Tomkins Partner
Gowling WLG
Ashley Butts
Senior Counsel
BASF Canada Inc.
Devin Persaud
SABA President, Senior Associate Goodmans LLP
Dr. Carol Liao
Associate Professor & UBC Sauder
Distinguished Fellow UBC Allard School of Law
Fiona Wong
Employment Lawyer
Overholt Law LLP
Fred Myers
Mr. Justice
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Hina Latif
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Canada Corporation
Ian Holloway
Professor and Dean of Law
The University of Calgary
Jennifer Suess
RioCan’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel, ESG & Corporate Secretary
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust
Kamika McLean
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
WeShall Investments Inc.
Leonard Marchand
Chief Justice of British Columbia
British Columbia Court of Appeal
Paula Pepin
Client Strategy Advisor (Caravel)/ Founder (LexGO & GC Collective)
Caravel Law / LexGO / The GC Collective
Sheilah Martin
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Supreme Court of Canada
Shevaun R. McGrath
Partner, Co-Head of Private Equity and Member of the Board of Partners
McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Steeves Bujold, AdE Partner
McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Sukesh Kamra
Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer Torys LLP
SPECIAL REPORT
MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS
NEW ZEALAND
Anjeet Singh
Criminal Defence & Traffic Law Specialist
Anj Singh Law
Phone: +64 21 677 912
Email: anj@asl.legal Website: anjsinghlaw.co.nz/
Selina Jane Trigg
Director
Lighthouse Legal
Phone: 03 928 1858
Email: selina@lighthouselegal.co.nz Website: www.lighthouselegal.co.nz
Amanda Bedford
Director
McCaw Lewis
Phone: 07 838 2079
Email: amanda.hockley@mccawlewis.co.nz Website: mccawlewis.co.nz/
Samira Taghavi
Barrister and Practice Manager
ActiveLegal
Phone: 02102610060
Email: samira@activelegal.co.nz
Website: activelegal.co.nz
Tonia Brugh
James & Wells
Phone: +64 7 928 4476
Email: tonia.brugh@jamesandwells.com Website: jamesandwells.com/nz/
Anna Buchly Partner
Bell Gully
Aoife O’Gorman
Special Counsel, Corporate and Pro Bono Director
DLA Piper
Frazer Barton Partner - Litigation, New Zealand Law Society President Anderson Lloyd
Gwendoline Keel General Manager, Governance and Legal Waikato-Tainui
Karen Chang Director and Chief Executive Serious Fraud Office, New Zealand
Keegan Jones Lawyer WRMK Lawyers
Laura Scampion Country Managing Partner, Head of Employment
DLA Piper
Luke Ford Partner Chapman Tripp
Mai Chen Barrister Public Law Toolbox Chambers
Mark Kelly Barrister & Commercial Mediator Barrister & Commercial Mediator
Natalie Coates Partner Kähui Legal
Natalie Steur Partner Russell McVeagh
Philip Ascroft Senior Associate Chapman Tripp
Pip Greenwood Chair Westpac New Zealand
Sarah Anderson-Butler Partner Bell Gully
Shan Wilson Pro Bono Partner Simpson Grierson
Sophie East Partner Bell Gully
Steven Moe Partner Parry Field Lawyers, Christchurch
Wook Jin Lee Partner Dentons
BEST IN LAW 2024
READERS’ CHOICE
CANADA
LEAP Legal Software
Phone: 437 900 2140
Email: sales@leaplegalsoftware.ca
Website: leaplegalsoftware.ca
Carol Bierbrier & Associates
Phone: 905 882 6947
Email: info@cbafuturecare.com
Website: cbafuturecare.com
Case Notebook (Thomson Reuters)
Phone: +14166877500
Email: customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com Website: thomsonreuters.com.ca
Colliers International
Phone: +1 416 777 2200
Email: collierscanada.com/en-ca/about Website: collierscanada.com
Connect Medical Legal Experts
Phone: 403 278 9273
Email: Experts@ConnectMLX.com
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Phone: +14166877500
Email: customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com Website: thomsonreuters.com.ca
eDiscovery Point (Thomson Reuters)
Phone: +14166877500
Email: customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com Website: thomsonreuters.com.ca
Henderson Structured Settlements LP
Phone: 1 800 263 8537
Email: henderson@henderson.ca
Website: henderson.ca
Legal Tracker (Thomson Reuters)
Phone: +14166877500
Email: customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com Website: thomsonreuters.com.ca
Practical Law Canada (Thomson Reuters)
Phone: +14166877500
Email: customersupport.legaltaxcanada@tr.com Website: thomsonreuters.com.ca
Upper Canada Court Reporting & Mediation
Phone: 905 882 3093
Email: info@uppercanadacourt.com
Website: uppercanadacourt.com
30 Forensic Engineering (formerly Giffin Koerth)
Accu-Search Inc.
ACL5 (Korbitec, acquired by Dye & Durham)
ADR Chambers
Advantage Forensics
Alexa Translations
Amicus Attorney (by CARET Integrations)
Anderson Associates
Assess Med
Baxter Structures
Bay Street Chambers
BDO Canada LLP
Bell Canada
BMC Networks (acquired by TELUS Business)
BridgePoint Financial Services Inc.
Canadian Commercial Arbitration Centre
Canadian Process Serving Inc.
CanLII
CBRE
CEP Forensic
ChildView
Clio
Corporate Manager ET, Emergent Technologies
CosmoLex (part of ProfitSolv)
CounselQuest
Cushman & Wakefield
Cyberbahn
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Deloitte
DIVORCEMATE Software Inc.
Easy Legal Finance Inc.
Emond Publishing
eState Planner
Estate Planning & Vault Manager, Emergent Technologies
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GaLexy Solution, Legal Suite
Grant Thornton LLP
Heuristica Discovery Counsel
IBM Canada Ltd.
International Word Exchange Ltd.
KAP Litigation Services
KPMG LLP
Legal Suite Inc.
Lexis Advance Quicklaw (LexisNexis)
LexisNexis Canada
Lormit Personal Services
McKellar Structured Settlements
Mirillion Group
MNP LLP
MT>3
Network Reporting & Mediation
Nuance Communications (acquired by Microsoft)
Nudorra Capital
Olympus Professional Dictation
PCLaw® | Time Matters
Philips Dictation | Speech Processing Solutions
ProSuite (Do Process Software)
PwC
RealtiWeb (LawyerDoneDeal Corp.)
Robert Half
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Symantec (Canada) Corporation (Broadcom)
TELUS
The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLE BC)
TitlePlus
TransPerfect Legal
Travelers
Veritext Canada
West Coast Title Search Ltd.
Westlaw Canada
ZSA Canada
SPECIAL REPORT
AUSTRALIA
Alyssa Royters
Senior Associate Aldermane
Phone: (02) 6153 0013
Email: alyssa.royters@aldermane.com.au
Website: www.aldermane.com.au/team/ alyssa-royters
Brenton Lam Associate Aldermane
Phone: 0450 739 399
Email: brenton.lam@aldermane.com.au
Website: https://www.aldermane.com.au/ about-us/our-people
Jenny Lo Senior Associate Maddocks
Phone: +61 2 9291 6207
Email: Jenny.lo@maddocks.com.au
Website: maddocks.com.au/our-people/ jenny-lo
Katie Pryor Senior Associate Maddocks
Phone:
Email: Katie.Pryor@maddocks.com.au
Website: maddocks.com.au/our-people/ katie-pryor
RISING STARS
Neane Carter Solicitor
Terri Janke and Company
Phone: +61 2 9693 2577
Email: neane@terrijanke.com.au
Website: terrijanke.com.au/team/neane
Rebecca Petroff
Sunstate Conveyancing
Phone: 07 3828 2069
Email: contracts@sunstateconveyancing.com.au
Website: sunstateconveyancing.com.au/
Vicki Howe Senior Associate Maddocks
Phone: +61 2 9291 6137 ; 0419829086
Email: Vicki.howe@maddocks.com.au Website: maddocks.com.au/our-people/ vicki-howe
Alexandra Sullivan
Senior Associate FCB Workplace Law
Alice Cooney
Legal Education Curriculum Specialist Office of Public Prosecutions
Amy Zhang
Executive Counsel & Team Leader Harmers Workplace Lawyers
Andrew Attard Associate Baker McKenzie
Andrew Honey Senior Associate McCabes Lawyers
Ash Joseph Senior Associate PwC
Ashleigh Blewitt Director Chamberlains Law Firm
Breannon Bailey Special Counsel Wotton + Kearney
Callum Ritchie Senior Associate DMAW Lawyers
Calum Woods Senior Associate Lander & Rogers
Candace Prince Principal Prince Legal
Charles Gibbs
Associate (until end of 2023), Senior Associate (from 1 January 2024) Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Chelsea Landgren Lawyer Kalus Kenny Intelex
Chloe Taylor Fashion & Beauty Lawyer Hall & Wilcox
Colette Downie Senior Associate Baker Mckenzie
Courtenay Willis Chief Counsel Nando’s
Daniel Moradian Senior Legal Counsel & Company Secretary Stake
David Adason Associate Director Aptum Legal
David De Mestre Associate Bartier Perry
Dietrich Marquardt Special Counsel Norton Rose Fulbright
Esterina Azzi Senior Associate McCullough Robertson Lawyers
Eveline Rygorowicz Special Counsel (as at 1 January, 2024) Wotton + Kearney
Freddie Gollan General Counsel Satellite Office
George Abraham Senior Associate Kennedys
Georgia Campbell Senior Associate Thomson Geer
Jack Gracie Special Counsel Phi Finney McDonald
Jacob Corbett Director | Lawyer Bradley & Bray Lawyers
RISING STARS
James Morgan Solicitor Herbert Smith Freehills
Jennifer Spear Senior Associate Duffy Elliott Lawyers
Jessica Ashby-Boyd Principal Solicitor Access Family Law
John Saunders Senior Associate Ashurst
Joshua Schultz Senior Associate Dentons Australia
Justine Tao Zhou Partner Quantum Law Group
Kate Mylott Associate Gadens
Katrina Bullock General Counsel Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Laura Martin Senior Associate Norton Rose Fulbright
Lee Jamali
Senior Associate Pinsent Masons
Lucy Hallwright Lawyer Hamilton Locke
Madison Tonkes Corporate Counsel Southern Cross Austereo
Maggie Yie-Quach Senior Associate Lander & Rogers
Maria Tseprailidis Principal, Partner and Lawyer Ethos Migration Lawyers
Marial Lewis Founder/Principal Solicitor Crossover Law Group
Michael Harty Special Counsel Gadens
Michael Kriewaldt Associate Jewell Hancock Employment Lawyers
Michael Stannard Partner Mellor Olsson
Michelle Mon Lawyer Massons
Neville Mirza Lawyer Westpac
Nicholas Camac Senior Associate King & Wood Mallesons
Nicholas Venn Solicitor Herbert Smith Freehills
Nick Malone Director Pragma Lawyers
Nicole George (formerly Nicole Diepenhorst)
Senior Legal Counsel AIA Australia
SPECIAL REPORT
Niki Schomberg
Senior Associate - Family & Relationship Law Lander & Rogers
Ninsun Gabriel Lawyer Madison Marcus Law Firm
Rachael Lopez Associate Griffith Hack Lawyers
Rachel Walls Special Counsel Wotton + Kearney
Renee Roumanos
Principal Lawyer / Founder Renee Roumanos Legal
NEW ZEALAND
RISING STARS
Sam Hagan Associate Cornwalls
Sapphire Parsons Senior Associate Macpherson Kelley
Sara Pearson Associate Griffith Hack Lawyers
Sophie Lefebvre Principal Solicitor Victorian Government Solicitors Office
Stefanie Costi Lawyer Watts McCray Lawyers
Stephanie Vejar Senior Migration Lawyer Women’s Legal Service Victoria
Stipe Vuleta Director Chamberlains Law Firm
Tim Buckley Senior Associate Gadens
Varshini Rajendran Senior Associate Johnson Winter Slattery
Zefy Souvlakis Lawyer Ethos Migration Lawyers
Holly Cassin
Senior Associate Cavell Leitch
Phone: +64 3 339 5660
Email: holly.cassin@cavell.co.nz
Website: cavell.co.nz
Isabelle Kwek
Associate Wotton + Kearney
Phone: +64 9 974 4393
Jeroen Vink
Principal Cavell Leitch
Phone: +64 3 339 5604
Email: jeroen.vink@cavell.co.nz
Website: cavell.co.nz
Patrick Anderson
Senior Associate Cooney Lees Morgan
Phone: DD 07 927 0550
Samantha Beattie
Senior Associate Wotton + Kearney
Phone: +64 9 974 4176
Email: samantha.beattie@wottonkearney.com
Website: wottonkearney.com.au/team/ samantha-beattie/
Tamara Webster
Senior Associate
Anthony Harper
Phone: +64 9 984 4216
Email: Isabelle.Kwek@wottonkearney.com
Website: wottonkearney.com.au/team/ isabelle-kwek/
Email: panderson@clmlaw.co.nz
Website: cooneyleesmorgan.co.nz.
Email: Tamara.Webster@ah.co.nz
Website: anthonyharper.co.nz/people/ tamara-webster/
SPECIAL REPORT
Alex MacDuff
Senior Associate (Litigation/Restructuring & Insolvency)
Russell McVeagh
Alice von Batenburg
Senior Associate Anthony Harper
Andrew Durrant
Special Counsel Fee Langstone
Andrew Logie
Senior Associate Wynn Williams
Anna Cherkashina
Senior Associate Norling Law
Barnaby Locke
Senior Associate Dundas Street Employment Lawyers
Blake Carey
Senior Associate AJ Park
Bradley Aburn Partner
Russell McVeagh
Brianna Boxall
General Counsel
Te Ohu Kaimoana
Carolyn Gillespie
Senior Legal Counsel Vector Limited
Catherine Shipton
Senior Associate
Simpson Grierson
RISING STARS
Charlotte Garland Partner
Mayne Wetherell
Claude Smith
Senior Legal Counsel
Meridian Energy
Emily Lay
Crown Counsel Crown Law Office
Emma Kerr
Senior Associate, Banking and Finance Anderson Lloyd
Evan Jones
Legal Counsel and Player Services Manager New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association
Frida Klippel
Senior Associate, Corporate Advisory Russell McVeagh
Georgina Sanders
In-House Counsel Mainfreight
Hannah Bain
Special Counsel (Litigation) and Head of Climate Change Russell McVeagh
Hannah Jaques
Senior Associate MinterEllisonRuddWatts
India Townsend
Senior Associate Simpson Grierson
Jacob Nutt
Senior Associate
DLA Piper
James Rowland Associate James & Wells
Jane Maltby
Senior Associate (Litigation) Buddle Findlay
Janey Haringa Principal & Director JH LAW
Jeremy Ansell Senior Associate Duncan Cotterill
Jesse Strafford
Senior Associate Henry Hughes IP
Jordan Oldham
Senior Associate MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Joy Wang Senior Associate Dentons
Julia Leenoh Director K3 Leenoh
Julie Hands Principal Counsel Hato Hone St John
Kathryn Evans
Senior Associate Wynn Williams
Katy Stove Senior Associate Duncan Cotterill
Keegan Jones Lawyer WRMK Lawyers
Kishan Gunatunga
Senior Associate Chapman Tripp
Louisa Joblin
Senior Associate Duncan Cotterill
Mathew Brown
Senior Associate Bell Gully
Matthew Gale Senior associate Bell Gully
Nicole Thompson Senior Associate Dentons
RISING STARS
Olivia de Pont
Senior Associate MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Rachael Jones
Senior Associate / Röia Whakarae Chapman Tripp
Renata Davis
Tumuaki / Partner Kahui Legal
Rosa McPhee
Senior Associate Chapman Tripp
Ryan Keen Partner Corcoran French
Shannon Chand Corporate Counsel Auckland International Airport Limited
Sherryn Harford Partner Mayne Wetherell
Sophie Mentink Corporate Counsel Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
Susan Hur Head of Legal - Australia and New Zealand Aunew Group Ltd
Tamzin Dempster Legal Counsel Fletcher Building
Wendy Smith Senior Associate DLA Piper
SERVICE PROVIDER AWARDS
AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND SINGAPORE
Fovea IP Oceania
Phone: +32 2 425 35 37
Email: info@foveaip.com Website: oveaip.com
Altitude Recruitment
Phone: 021740993
Email: louise@altituderecruitment.co.nz Website: altituderecruitment.co.nz
Barhead Solutions
CASL Management
Epiq Australia Pty Ltd
Hivelight
Insource
Ironbark Funding
KordaMentha
Law In Order
Lawcadia
One Pacific Dispute Resolution
TransPerfect Legal
Chisholm Clarke
Phone: 0272534837
Email: office@chisholmclarke.co.nz Website: chisholmclarke.co.nz/
Virtuoso
Phone: +64 9 5537080
Email: roman.paljk@virtuoso.tech Website: virtuoso.tech
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
AUSTRALIA
Immigration Solutions Lawyers
Email: anne@immigrationsolutions.com.au
Website: immigrationsolutionslawyers.com.au/
Velocity Legal
Phone: (03) 7043 3311
Email: office@velocitylegal.com.au
Website: velocitylegal.com.au
Advantage Legal
Phone: (02) 8379 1806
Email: leighdavidson@advantagelegal.com.au
Website: advantagelegal.com.au/
Alderman
Phone: (02) 6153 0013
Email: contact@aldermane.com.au
Website: www.aldermane.com.au
Vincent Young Lawyers
Phone: 02 9261 5900
Email: reception@vincentyoung.com.au
Website: vincentyoung.com.au
Construction Legal Pty Ltd
Phone: +61 (02) 8591 9132
Email: admin@constructionlegal.com.au
Website: constructionlegal.com.au/
LawBase Pty Ltd
Phone: 1300 149 140
Email: info@lawbase.com.au
Website: www.lawbase.com.au
FoodLegal
Phone: +61 3 9606 0022
Email: mail@foodlegal.com.au
Website: https://www.foodlegal.com.au/
Kingston & Partners
Phone: 02 9056 9998
Email: admin@kingstonandpartners.com.au
Website: kingstonandpartners.com/
Aitken Legal
AMK Law
Aptum Legal
Argon Law
Aspect Legal
Auslaw Partners
Banton Group
BDC Law Pty Ltd
Becketts Lawyers
Bennett - Litigation and Commerical Law
Bespoke Law
Blue Space Legal
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Carina Ford Immigration Lawyers
Construct Law Group
D2 Legal Technology
DBH Lawyers
Denning Insurance Law
Grondal Bruining
Harmers Workplace Lawyers
Jewell Hancock Employment Lawyers
Keighran Legal + Advisory
CANADA
Corporate Law
SkyLaw PC
Phone: 416 759 5299
Email: andrea.hill@skylaw.ca
Website: skylaw.ca
KF Lawyers Australia
Kinny Legal
Level Playing Field Lawyers
Massons
MPS Law
Parker Coles Curtis
Pearce IP
Phi Finney McDonald
Pragma Lawyers
Quantum Law Group
Roam Migration Law
Southern Waters Legal
Stirling & Rose
Unified Lawyers
Waterhouse Tax Lawyers
Work Visa Lawyers
Workdynamic Australia
Allen McDonald Swartz LLP
DuMoulin Black LLP
Forooghian + Company Law Corporation
Hansell LLP
LaBarge Weinstein LLP
MEP Business Counsel
Mogan Daniels Slager LLP
Peterson McVicar LLP
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Criminal Law Immigration
Narwal Litigation LLP
Phone: 604 681 2226
Email: admin@narwallit.com
Website: narwallitigation.com
Neuberger & Partners
Phone: 416 364 3111
Email: joseph@nrlawyers.com
Website: nrlawyers.com
Addario Law Group LLP
Phone: 416 979 6446
Email: info@addario.ca Website: addario.ca
AGP LLP
Phone: 613 235 9779
Email: office@agpllp.ca
Website: agpllp.ca
Edelson Foord Law
Phone: 613 237 2290
Email: justice@edelsonlaw.ca
Website: edelsonlaw.ca
Battista Turcot Israel Corbo, s.e.n.c.
Bayne Sellar Ertel Macrae
Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Schwartzentruber LLP
Daniel Brown Law LLP
Fenton Smith barristers
Greenspan Humphrey Weinstein LLP
Greenspan Partners LLP
Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh
Martland & Saulnier
O’Brien Devlin MacLeod
Peck and Company Barristers
Posner Craig Stein LLP
Pringle Law
Ruby Shiller Enenajor Barristers
Shadley Knerr
Bellissimo Immigration Law Group PC
Corporate Immigration Law Firm
Galileo Partners Lawyers Inc.
Gomberg Dalfen, S.E.N.C.
Green and Spiegel LLP
Jackman & Associates
Larlee Rosenberg, Barristers & Solicitors
McCrea Immigration Law
Sherritt Greene Immigration Law
Zaifman Law
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Intellectual Property Labour and Employment Law
Aitken Klee LLP
CPST Intellectual Property
Deeth Williams Wall LLP
Fineberg Ramamoorthy LLP
Marks & Clerk
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
ROBIC LLP
Seastone IP
Smart & Biggar
Wilson Lue LLP
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
Website: filion.on.ca
Harris & Company LLP
Phone: 604 684 6633
Email: info@harrisco.com
Website: harrisco.com
Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP
Phone: 416 862 8280 / 1 800 411 2900
Email: mathewsdinsdale.com/our-team Website: mathewsdinsdale.com
Rae Christen Jeffries LLP
Phone: 416 630 4737
Email: info@rcjlaw.ca
Website: rcjlaw.ca
Sherrard Kuzz LLP
Phone: 416 603 0700
Email: info@sherrardkuzz.com
Website: sherrardkuzz.com
Barteaux Labour and Employment Lawyers
CaleyWray Labour and Employment Lawyers
Cavalluzzo LLP
Goldblatt Partners
Hicks Morley
Levitt Sheikh LLP
Loranger Marcoux LLP
Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP
Neuman Thompson
Pink Larkin
Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP
Roper Greyell LLP
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Ryder Wright Holmes Bryden Nam LLP
Whitten & Lublin
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Litigation Law
Stockwoods LLP
Phone: 416 593 7200
Email: reception@stockwoods.ca
Website: stockwoods.ca
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
Phone: 416 499 9940
Email: info@agbllp.com
Website: agbllp.com
Hunter Litigation Chambers
Phone: 604 891 2405
Email: mabdollahi@litigationchambers.com Website: litigationchambers.com
Paliare Roland Rosenberg
Rothstein LLP
Phone: 416 646 4300
Email: info@paliareroland.com
Website: paliareroland.com
Lundy Levy Eski Baum
Phone: 416 966 9955
Email: info@lleb.ca Website: lleb.ca
Babin Bessner Spry LLP
Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP
HMC Lawyers LLP
Hunter Litigation Chambers
Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP
Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Lenczner Slaght LLP
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson LLP
Peacock Linder Halt & Mack LLP
Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP
Woods LLP
SPECIAL REPORT
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Personal Injury
Bogoroch & Associates LLP (Toronto)
Phone: 416 599 1700
Email: info@bogoroch.com
Website: bogoroch.com
Boland Romaine LLP (Aurora, ON)
Phone: 905 841 5717
Email: info@bolandromaine.com
Website: bolandromaine.com
McLeish Orlando Lawyers LLP
Phone: 866 685 3311
Email: info@mollp.com
Website: mcleishorlando.com
Oatley Vigmond Personal Injury
Lawyers
Phone: 705 726 9021
Email: info@oatleyvigmond.com
Website: oatleyvigmond.com
Thomson Rogers (Toronto)
Phone: 416 868 3100
Email: info@trlaw.com
Website: trlaw.com
Fidelis Law Droit (Moncton, NB)
Phone: (506) 804 2054
Email: fidelis@fidelislaw.ca
Website: fidelislaw.ca
Gluckstein Lawyers (Jellinek Ellis Gluckstein Lawyers)
Phone: 416 408 4252
Email: info@gluckstein.com
Website: gluckstein.com
Will Trial Lawyers (Oakville)
Phone: 905 337 9568
Email: gwill@willtriallawyers.ca
Website: willtriallawyers.ca
Neinstein Personal Injury
Lawyers
Phone: 416 920 4242
Email: info@neinstein.com
Website: neinstein.com
Bergeron Clifford LLP
Phone: 613 706 4065
Email: injurylaw@bergeronclifford.com
Website: bergeronclifford.com
Howie Sacks & Henry LLP (Toronto)
Phone: 1 877 771 7006
Email: info@hshlawyers.com
Website: hshlawyers.com
MacGillivray Injury and Insurance Law (Halifax, New Glasgow, N.S.)
Phone: 1 888 434 0398
Email: inquire@macgillivraylaw.com
Website: macgillivraylaw.com
TOP BOUTIQUE FIRMS
Pacific Medical Law (Vancouver)
Phone: 604 685 2361
Email: info@pacificmedicallaw.ca
Website: pacificmedicallaw.ca
Braithwaite Boyle Accident Injury Lawyers
Correia & Collins (Saint John)
Cuming & Gillespie LLP
McKiggan Hebert (Halifax)
Murphy Battista LLP (Vancouver)
Slater Vecchio LLP (Vancouver)
Wagners (Halifax)
TOP REGIONAL FIRMS
Quebec Western
Dunton Rainville LLP
Website: duntonrainville.com
BCF Business Law
Cain Lamarre LLP
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Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP
Lavery de Billy LLP
Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP
Stein Monast LLP
Therrien Couture Joli-Coeur SENCRL
McLennan Ross LLP
Phone: 780 482 9200
Email: mclennan@mross.com
Website: mross.com
Farris LLP
Phone: 236 466 6953
Email: ssangha@farris.com
Website: farris.com
Boughton Law Corporation
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Clark Wilson
Farris LLP
Field Law
Harper Grey LLP
Lawson Lundell LLP
McLennan Ross LLP
Parlee McLaws LLP
Witten LLP
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ABOUT THE
PRO BONO ONTARIO
PRO BONO ONTARIO (PBO) is an access-to-justice charity founded in 2001. PBO’s mission is to harness the skills and commitment of volunteer lawyers to address low-income Ontarians’ unmet civil law
problems to help them lead secure, healthy, and productive lives. PBO delivers on this mission by developing and directly managing pro bono programs that enable lawyers to provide high-quality legal services to those who cannot afford a lawyer or qualify for government-funded legal assistance. Since its creation, PBO has provided direct legal services to 300,000 clients who had nowhere else to turn for their everyday legal problems.
SPECIAL
THANKS TO OUR EDITORIAL BOARD FOR SELECTING THE TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL CANADIAN LAWYERS
Katherine Hensel
Andrea Wood
Edward Waitzer
Dale Orlando
Michael Spratt
Raphael Tachie
Caroline Zayid
Quinn Ross
Dr Pina D’Agostino
Tanya Walker
Janice Rubin
Fernando Garcia
Donna Purcell
Lorin MacDonald
Hilary Young
Rosanne Kyle
Craig Ferris
Tanya Rothe Emmanuel Pressman
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR EDITORIAL BOARD FOR SELECTING THE TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL CANADIAN LAWYERS
Karrin A. Powys-Lybbe
Eugene Meehan K.C.
Laurie Pawlitza
Bruce McIvor
Mark Persaud
Andrew McLaughlin
Lorne O’Reilly
Ian Hull
Peter V. Nguyen
Sharon Haward-Laird
Bindu Cudjoe Gerry Apostolatos
Cheryl Foy
Deborah Greenberg
Jeff Davis
Monica Goyal
