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Top Law Firms in Canada

34 firms on file. None is placed yet: no firm here has published the evidence a position needs.

Firms on File
34
Region
Americas
Evidence coverage
0% of 50% needed
Press mentions
0
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Canada Is Not Ranked

Canada is not ranked. 34 firms are on file and 16 are verified against their own websites, but none has published the evidence a position needs: recognitions from at least two independent publishers or a professional count on its own site. The list appears when that evidence does.

Rankings by practice area in Canada

16 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tables

Each publisher’s placement as it stands on the publisher’s own table, side by side. The practice areas are grouped under one name where publishers word them differently; the publisher’s own wording is shown on hover.

Litigation and Disputes

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Allen McMillan Litigation Counsel—Tier 1
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 1Tier 4
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1Tier 1Tier 2Tier 1Tier 1Tier 3
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 2Tier 2Tier 2Tier 2Tier 1
Gowling WLG—Tier 3Tier 4Tier 3Tier 1
JSS Barristers—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 2Tier 1Tier 1Tier 1Tier 1Tier 1
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson—Tier 1
Norton Rose Fulbright—Tier 1Tier 3Tier 1Tier 1
Robert Fleming Lawyers—Tier 1
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP—Tier 2
Dentons—Tier 3Tier 3Tier 3Tier 2Tier 3
Lawson Lundell LLP—Tier 4Tier 2
Torys—Tier 2Tier 3Tier 3Tier 2
Woods LLP—Tier 2
BCF Business Law—Tier 3
Blaney McMurtry LLP—Tier 3
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 4Tier 3Tier 3
McEwan Partners—Tier 3
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 3
Cassels—Tier 4
Dennis James Aitken LLP—Tier 4
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP—Tier 4
McMillan LLP—Tier 4
Miller Thomson—Tier 4
Narwal Litigation LLP—Tier 4

Intellectual Property

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP—Tier 1
Gowling WLG—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 2
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 2
Torys—Tier 2
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 3
Cassels—Tier 3
Baker McKenzie—Tier 4
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 4
Heer Law—Tier 4
BCF Business Law—Tier 5
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 5
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 5
Miller Thomson—Tier 5

Corporate and M&A

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 1
Torys—Tier 1
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 2
Miller Thomson—Tier 2
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 2
Baker McKenzie—Tier 3
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 3
Dentons—Tier 3
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP—Tier 4
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 4
Lawson Lundell LLP—Tier 4

International Trade

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 1
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP—Tier 1
Kanargelidis Global Trade & Customs Law—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 1
Dentons—Tier 2
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 3
Cassels—Tier 3
Baker McKenzie—Tier 4
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 4
Gowling WLG—Tier 4
McMillan LLP—Tier 4
Torys—Tier 4

Restructuring and Insolvency

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 1
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1
Cassels—Tier 2
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 2
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 3
Gowling WLG—Tier 3
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP—Tier 3
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 3
Torys—Tier 3
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 4
Dentons—Tier 4
McMillan LLP—Tier 4

Competition and Antitrust

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 1
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 2
McMillan LLP—Tier 2
Torys—Tier 2
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 3
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 3
Baker McKenzie—Tier 4
Cassels—Tier 4
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 4
Dentons—Tier 4

Technology, Media and Telecoms

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Dentons—Tier 1Tier 4Tier 2
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 3Tier 1Tier 1
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 2Tier 3
Cassels—Tier 2
Gowling WLG—Tier 2Tier 3
Torys—Tier 2
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 3
Baker McKenzie—Tier 4
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 4
Services OR LP/SEC—Tier 4

Insurance and Reinsurance

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 1
Torys—Tier 1
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 2
Dentons—Tier 2
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP—Tier 3Tier 2
Gowling WLG—Tier 3
McMillan LLP—Tier 4

Capital Markets

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—Tier 1
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 1
Torys—Tier 2
Bennett Jones LLP—Tier 4
Dentons—Tier 4
Norton Rose Fulbright—Tier 4
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 5
Cassels—Tier 5

Private Client, Family and Immigration

FirmChambersThe Legal 500
Dentons—Tier 2
Gowling WLG—Tier 2
McCarthy Tétrault—Tier 2
BCF Business Law—Tier 3
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—Tier 3

Guides Written by Firms in Canada

24 chapters

Country chapters firms contributed to the directories' comparative guides. The firm wrote it; the link goes to the host. Chapters stay with the host.

How Canada Is Ranked

No firm in Canada is ranked. Ranking requires at least two independent publishers to have recognised the same firm, taken from the firm's own announcements; that threshold is not met here yet, so the whole list is alphabetical and implies no order.

What This Ranking Does Not Rest On

  • 18 of 34 entries still rest on a Wikipedia category rather than the firm's own website
  • no court record feeds any firm's position — judgments are collected but not yet attributed to the firms that argued them
  • no firm has made a submission, because intake is not open
  • no peer or client review has been collected
Firms ranked
0 of 34
Verified against own site
16 of 34
Evidence coverage
0%

Firms on File

A–Z · no order implied
FirmPress
BCF Business Law—
BMKP Law—
Bellissimo Law Group PC—
Bennett Jones—
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP—
Blaney McMurtry LLP—
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP—
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP—
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg—
Fasken—
Felesky Flynn LLP—
Goodmans—
JSS Barristers—
Lawson Lundell LLP—
Loopstra Nixon LLP—
Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP—
McCarthy Tétrault—
McInnes Cooper—
McMillan LLP—
Miller Thomson—
Narwal Litigation LLP—
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt—
Polley Faith—
Robert Fleming Lawyers—
Seven Sisters (law firms)—
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP—
Smart & Biggar—
Stewart McKelvey—
Stikeman Elliott—
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman—
Thorsteinssons LLP—
Torys—
WeirFoulds LLP—
Wildeboer Dellelce—

Every firm above is a real entity with a source recorded against it. Inclusion is not an endorsement. The order is alphabetical. Founding years are shown only where a source states one.

Bar associations, in-house counsel bodies and arbitral institutions, by market · 86

Korean Bar Association대한변호사협회Korea In-house Counsel Association한국사내변호사회Japan Federation of Bar Associations logoJapan Federation of Bar AssociationsJapan In-house Lawyers Association logoJapan In-house Lawyers AssociationAll China Lawyers Association logoAll China Lawyers AssociationLaw Society of Hong Kong logoLaw Society of Hong KongHong Kong Corporate Counsel AssociationTaiwan Bar Association logoTaiwan Bar AssociationLaw Society of SingaporeSingapore Corporate Counsel AssociationBar Council of IndiaIndian Corporate Counsel AssociationLaw Society of England and WalesBar Council of England and WalesAmerican Bar AssociationAssociation of Corporate CounselCanadian Bar Association logoCanadian Bar AssociationCanadian Corporate Counsel AssociationLaw Council of Australia logoLaw Council of AustraliaBundesrechtsanwaltskammer logoBundesrechtsanwaltskammerBundesverband der UnternehmensjuristenBUJConseil national des barreaux logoConseil national des barreauxAssociation Française des Juristes d'Entreprise logoAssociation Française des Juristes d'EntrepriseOrdem dos Advogados do BrasilOABLaw Society of South Africa logoLaw Society of South AfricaNigerian Bar Association logoNigerian Bar AssociationIstanbul Bar Association logoIstanbul Bar AssociationIsrael Bar Associationלשכת עורכי הדיןKorean Commercial Arbitration Board대한상사중재원Japan Commercial Arbitration Association日本商事仲裁協会China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission logoChina International Economic and Trade Arbitration CommissionHong Kong International Arbitration Centre香港國際仲裁中心Singapore International Arbitration CentreAsian International Arbitration Centre logoAsian International Arbitration CentreThai Arbitration InstituteสถาบันอนุญาโตตุลาการVietnam International Arbitration Centre logoVietnam International Arbitration CentreIndonesian National Board of Arbitration logoIndonesian National Board of ArbitrationPhilippine Dispute Resolution Center logoPhilippine Dispute Resolution CenterMumbai Centre for International Arbitration logoMumbai Centre for International ArbitrationChinese Arbitration Association, Taipei logoChinese Arbitration Association, TaipeiLondon Court of International ArbitrationICC International Court of Arbitration logoICC International Court of ArbitrationGerman Arbitration InstituteDeutsche Institution für SchiedsgerichtsbarkeitSwiss Arbitration Centre logoSwiss Arbitration CentreNetherlands Arbitration Institute logoNetherlands Arbitration InstituteMilan Chamber of Arbitration logoMilan Chamber of ArbitrationMadrid International Arbitration CenterCentro Internacional de Arbitraje de MadridArbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce logoArbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of CommerceIstanbul Arbitration Centreİstanbul Tahkim MerkeziDubai International Arbitration Centre logoDubai International Arbitration CentreSaudi Center for Commercial Arbitration logoSaudi Center for Commercial ArbitrationIsraeli Institute of Commercial Arbitrationהמוסד הישראלי לבוררות עסקיתLagos Court of ArbitrationArbitration Foundation of Southern Africa logoArbitration Foundation of Southern AfricaAmerican Arbitration Association, ICDR logoAmerican Arbitration Association, ICDRADR Institute of CanadaInstitut d'arbitrage et de médiation du CanadaCentro de Arbitraje de México logoCentro de Arbitraje de MéxicoCAM-CCBCCentro de Arbitragem e Mediação da Câmara de Comércio Brasil-CanadáAustralian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration logoAustralian Centre for International Commercial ArbitrationInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment DisputesPermanent Court of ArbitrationCour permanente d'arbitrageIntegrated Bar of the PhilippinesMalaysian BarMajlis Peguam MalaysiaLawyers Council of Thailand logoLawyers Council of ThailandVietnam Bar FederationLiên đoàn Luật sư Việt NamIndonesian Advocates Association logoIndonesian Advocates AssociationMacau Lawyers Association澳門律師公會Law Society of IrelandDlí-Chumann na hÉireannGerman Bar AssociationDeutscher AnwaltvereinParis Bar logoParis BarConsiglio Nazionale ForenseConsejo General de la Abogacía EspañolaNetherlands Bar logoNetherlands BarSwiss Bar AssociationSchweizerischer AnwaltsverbandSwedish Bar Association logoSwedish Bar AssociationUnion of Turkish Bar AssociationsTürkiye Barolar BirliğiFederal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation logoFederal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian FederationDubai Legal Affairs Department logoDubai Legal Affairs DepartmentSaudi Bar Associationالهيئة السعودية للمحامينLegal Practice Council of South AfricaBarra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados logoBarra Mexicana, Colegio de AbogadosColegio Público de la Abogacía de la Capital FederalInternational Bar Association logoInternational Bar AssociationLAWASIA logoLAWASIAUnion Internationale des Avocats logoUnion Internationale des AvocatsInter-Pacific Bar Association logoInter-Pacific Bar Association