Opportunities have certainly opened up for Ontario’s full-service regional firms in recent years. Since Canadian Lawyer last ranked them along with their Quebec peers in 2006, two of the top three have moved on or out. The top firm, McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP, has rebranded itself as McMillan LLP and combined forces with Lang Michener LLP to join the national crowd. And who could forget the March 2007 dissolution of the once-formidable Goodman and Carr LLP, which placed third in the 2006 rankings? “I think that’s to our benefit,” Torkin Manes LLP managing partner Jeffrey Cohen says of these departures from the mid-market. He says the hollowing out has made it easier to identify the clients his firm is chasing, and better tailor its services and marketing efforts to them. “We’ve stayed the course. We know who we are; we understand where our limitations are, and we don’t worry about what we can’t do. We focus on what we can do.”

One of the people accused of organizing the vandalism during the G20 summit was arrested Friday for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.

The trial of a Calgary woman who claims she was raped 23 years ago is expected to hear about DNA evidence that allegedly links a 52-year-old man to the attack.

Canadian Lawyer’s annual corporate counsel survey shows legal departments expect increased demand, but the bulk of the work will be done in-house as cost control remains a top priority.

 

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Canadian Lawyer’s 2009 legal fees survey shows many sole practitioners and small firms have lowered their prices since last year.

 

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Our 26th annual directory gives you a detailed yet concise guide to the hundreds of specialist software packages aimed at the Canadian market.

 

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While not everyone got free gym memberships and gourmet lunches, most students say they benefitted from their summer work experience.

 

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Canadian Lawyer's new-style Law School Survey does away with rankings, instead offering an overall review of each school with some input from students and alumni.

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Room for improvement
Canadian Lawyer's annual survey of in-house counsel shows that 85 per cent of the time law departments don't rate the services of outside law firms as any more impressive than their rivals.

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Associates don't see partnership as the Holy Grail. Only 50 per cent of respondents to the Canadian Lawyer Associates survey on attitudes toward partnership say their goal is to become a partner in a law firm.

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