1.5 points for each lawyer in the “Most Frequently Recommended” tier in any of the relevant practice areas in the 2021 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory or The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; 0.75 points for each lawyer in the “Consistently Recommended” tier in any of the relevant practice areas in the 2021 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory; 0.5 points for each lawyer in the “Repeatedly Recommended” tier in any of the relevant practice areas in the 2021 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory;
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The bull’s-eye charts and text that follow are a guide to identifying legal talent as recognized in peer surveys in support of this 2021 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and its sister publication, The 2021 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. The survey work uses peer reviews to identify which counsel the Canadian legal profession regards as the top lawyers in various practice areas. Moreover, law firm positions in the bull’s-eye charts depend on the cumulative recognition their individual lawyers have achieved in these surveys. More particularly, the formula for the bull’s-eye charts is as follows:
If one lawyer appears in multiple practice areas, the calculation is treated as if it were for more The bull’s-eye charts here have been updated since they were first published in December 2020 in The 2021 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. This update reflects many transfers of ranked lawyers from one firm to another since that time.
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As with the litigation charts, several of the firms ranked in this category are boutiques, many of which originated because of the challenges of client conflicts within corporate Canada. The law of conflicts becomes increasingly complicated as corporate clients and law firms globalize. In Toronto, first place goes to Lenczner Slaght. Next come Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP; McCarthy Tétrault LLP; Torys LLP; Stikeman Elliott LLP; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Bennett Jones LLP; Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP; Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. In the next grade are Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG); Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP; Goodmans LLP; Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP; Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP; Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP; Gowling WLG; Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP; Stockwoods LLP; Chaitons LLP; Lerners LLP; Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.
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