Gold Winners will be announced during the virtual event on May 20
The Excellence Awardees for the Canadian Law Awards in the Case, In-House, Firm and Legal Profession categories have now been announced.
Hundreds of submissions from firms and legal departments across Canada were received during the recent nomination phase. Excellence Awardees were determined via a rigorous, expert-informed process. The Canadian Law Awards editorial and research teams reviewed all the submissions and consulted third-party information to identify each category’s standouts. These successful submissions will be sent to the extensive independent external judging panel which will score the nominations against the criteria. Through an aggregation of judges’ scoring, a Gold Winner will be chosen from each category, a process which is independently verified through an audit by PwC.
On April 2, the Excellence Awardees for the Female Trailblazer category will be announced.
Following that, on April 16, the Excellence Awardees for all Deal Award categories will be announced.
The Excellence Awardees are listed here and are as follows:
CASE CATEGORIES
Class Action Team of the Year
Auger Garnier Frédérick, BGA Avocats, McCarthy Tétrault LLP - Brousseau v. Abbott Laboratories (Biaxin)
Bennett Jones LLP - Winder v. Marriott International Inc.
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) - Fortin v. Mazda Canada inc.
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), Eric K. Gillespie, Murray Klippenstein and Kathleen Coulter - Good v. Toronto Police Services Board
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Siskinds LLP - Boston Scientific Pelvic Mesh Class Action
Commercial Litigation Team of the Year
Arvay Finlay LLP, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), Caza Saikaley S.R.L./LLP, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Gall Legge Grant Zwack LLP, Grant Kovacs Norell, JFK Law Corporation, Lawson Lundell LLP, MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, NG Ariss Fong, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Ratcliff and Company LLP, White Raven Law Corporation - Attorney General of British Columbia v. Attorney General of Canada (B.C.)
Attorney General of Quebec, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Torys LLP, Vincent Karim and Ricardo Hrtschan - Hydro-Québec v. Matta
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Woods LLP - 9354-9186 Québec inc. v. Callidus Capital Corp.
Dentons Canada LLP, Fillmore Riley LLP - Canadian National Railway Company v. John Doe
IN-HOUSE CATEGORIES
Banking & Financial Institutions Law Department of the Year
CIBC
Coast Capital Savings
National Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
TD Bank
Construction, Infrastructure & Transportation Law Department of the Year
Aecon Group Inc.
Canada Lands Company Limited
IBI Group
Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
VIA Rail Canada Inc.
Energy & Resources Law Department of the Year
Ontario Power Generation
Plains Midstream Canada ULC (PMC)
Canadian Law Department of the Year
Alberta Health Services
Ivanhoe Cambridge inc.
Mastercard Foundation
TELUS Communications
Teranet Inc., Legal Services Group
*Gold winners of the three sector-specific law department categories will progress to also become finalists for this category. Gold winners will be announced at the event.
Law Department Leader of the Year
Beneva (La Capitale Insurance and Financial Services and SSQ Insurance) - Pierre Marc Bellavance, LL.M., ASC
Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. ("BRP") - Julie Morel
Detour Gold Corporation - Carl DeLuca
LifeLabs - Erica Zarkovich
Rogers Communications Inc. - Graeme McPhail
Starlight Investments - David Hanick
Law Department Innovation Award
CPP Investments' deal risk rating frameworks and app
IBI Group's process automation tools
Royal Bank of Canada's contest rules compliance and global brand portfolio management
Siemens’ Healthineers in Canada app
Teck Resources Ltd.'s business transformation program - RACE21TM
FIRM CATEGORIES
Atlantic Canada Law Firm of the Year
Stewart McKelvey LLP
Wagners
Ontario Law Firm of the Year
Barriston LLP
Beard Winter LLP
Lerners LLP
Torkin Manes LLP
WeirFoulds LLP
Prairies Law Firm of the Year
McDougall Gauley LLP
McKercher LLP
Pitblado Law
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
Quebec Law Firm of the Year
Langlois lawyers, LLP
Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P
Spiegel Sohmer
Western Canada Law Firm of the Year
Clark Wilson LLP
Farris LLP
Lawson Lundell LLP
IP Boutique Law Firm of the Year
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
Robic, LLP
Smart & Biggar
Litigation & Dispute Resolution Boutique Law Firm of the Year
Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
Thomson Rogers
Best Use of Technology in a Law Firm
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Davidson Houle Allen LLP
Gluckstein Lawyers
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Litigator of the Year
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP - Andrew I. Nathanson
Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP - Melissa Miller
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP - Crawford Smith
McCarthy Tétrault LLP - Brandon Kain
Torys LLP - Sylvie Rodrigue
Managing Partner of the Year
Hull & Hull LLP - Suzana Popovic-Montag
Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P - Anik Trudel
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP - Tom Curry
McCarthy Tétrault LLP - Dave Leonard
Nelligan O'Brien Payne - Mia Hempey
LEGAL PROFESSION CATEGORIES
The Bereskin & Parr Award for Diversity Initiative of the Year
Aird & Berlis LLP - ABDI
Dentons Canada LLP - Standing up against anti-Black racism
Harper Grey LLP - Life in Law
McCarthy Tétrault LLP - McCarthy Tétrault’s Anti-Racism Strategy
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP - Race equity strategy
Ontario Regional Office of the Department of Justice (Canada) - The Department of Justice Ontario Regional Office's Commitment to Action on Diversity and Inclusion
Pro Bono Initiative of the Year
Dentons Canada LLP - Dentons helps employers put domestic abuse on the agenda
IMK s.e.n.c.r.l./LLP - Contestation of Bill 21
Nelligan O'Brien Payne - Free Employment Helpline
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP - Norton Rose Fulbright and Zú partner to support growing businesses in Quebec’s entertainment industry
