Best Law Firms in Canada for Alternative Dispute Resolution
Gowling WLG is an international law firm built on the belief that the best way to serve you is to be in tune with your world, aligned with your opportunity and ambitious for your success. With more than 1,500 legal professionals around the world, we provide our clients with in-depth knowledge in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We see the world through our clients' eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances.
Brief History
With roots tracing back to 1887, Gowling WLG grew to become one of the largest and most respected law firms in Canada, with a reputation for innovation in client-focused service delivery.
Building on its early strength in intellectual property, Gowling WLG diversified to offer a full suite of business law, litigation and intellectual property services in all of Canada’s key industries, including energy, mining, financial services, government, infrastructure, manufacturing, life sciences and technology.
Founded in 2014 by a group of litigation partners from one of Canada’s premier national firms, LCM Attorneys has since experienced a remarkable growth, rapidly establishing itself as one of the leading litigation boutiques in Montreal, with an impressive list of clients and matters and an impeccable reputation. The firm now boasts twenty-seven lawyers renowned for their expertise, savvy, dedication, and creativity in crafting winning strategies.
From multinational corporations and financial institutions to professionals and entrepreneurs, LCM Attorneys represents clients of all sizes in a wide array of matters, including class actions, securities law, commercial litigation and shareholders’ disputes, professional liability, construction law, public law, arbitration and international matters. Its in-depth expertise, knowledgeable and hands-on approach allows LCM Attorneys to help its clients reach their objectives, ensure success before the courts and find practical solutions to the most challenging legal issues.
Through our affiliation with Meritas, a global affiliation of law firms, we can help extend your reach and enhance your success in all matters of law and local custom in Manitoba and Canada from answering the simplest of questions to providing full representation on the most complex of matters. We work seamlessly with you or your legal counsel or other professional advisors to meet your business needs.
Pitblado represents large and small, local, national and international, publicly traded and private companies and their owners and managers. Federal, provincial and municipal governments and regulatory bodies, financial institutions and asset managers, health care authorities, institutions and practitioners and many non-profit organizations routinely engage our firm for help on important issues. Pitblado's lawyers are recognized not only for the quality and innovation of their legal solutions, but also for their extraordinary commitment to community. This variety of experience has enabled the members of the firm to develop not only a unique perspective of how business works best but also a valuable network of contacts in law, business and government across the country.
We deal with all aspects and areas of business law:
- the structure and governance of business organizations and relationships to accommodate not only legal and tax systems but also the realities of tomorrow's global business environment;
-commercial litigation; our litigators have extensive court room experience provincial and federal courts alike. We are specialists in insurance, construction, health, transportation and telecommunications, media and sports and entertainment. We are effective in the formal confines of court and the industry specifics of administrative tribunals. Our lawyers represent businesses, insurers, banks, shareholders, professionals and governments in all facets of commercial contract breaches and disputes.
-M&A, financing and investment, IT, restructuring, trade, property, succession, labour and employment and traditional and alternate dispute resolution and interest representation.
First we listen then we become an effective part of your team. We can protect your interests in all courts and administrative and regulatory tribunals with "we need it NOW" responsiveness. We bring an understanding of how industries are evolving in traditional fields such as agriculture, banking, real estate and transportation as well as in cutting-edge sectors like communications and media, information and intellectual property and technology, health, sports, environment and global trade and commerce. We encourage settlement and practice mediation and arbitration, but we understand that sometimes you need to draw a line.
For more information or to contact us, please visit us at www.pitblado.com
We believe that the best reference is the ongoing confidence and support of our clients. We are national trial counsel for Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. We are proud to act on behalf of a number of sophisticated multi-national corporations, including: Kia Canada Inc., Nissan Canada Inc., Cessna Aircraft Company, Celanese Corporation and Domtar Inc. While a large part of our practice is devoted to general commercial litigation, we have developed practice concentrations in the automotive and commercial insurance industries and in the areas of product liability, risk management and transnational disputes.
We believe that good lawyers must balance passion and creativity with common sense. Our firm is committed to always evaluating whether a particular issue or matter is worth fighting, or whether there may be a simpler, more direct, way to achieve our client’s goals. We find ways to simplify complex matters, and clearly define our client’s goals while always working to manage costs. In our view, the practice of law should be service-oriented with a focus on providing practical and cost-effective solutions. Effective legal representation involves a partnership with our clients.
We recognize the significant impact technology can provide and we leverage our firm's information technology in the areas of litigation support, file management, and knowledge management systems, to deliver our services efficiently. We have been a leader at integrating technology into the practice of law. We invest the intellectual and financial capital to continually develop and implement systems and procedures that incorporate technology into our every day practice. We look for ways in which our IT systems will help make us practice better and more efficiently, with the goal of cutting costs while maintaining the highest standards of professional services.
We have a fully digital practice, which means that all members of the team are kept up to date, can quickly review the electronic file to determine the status of issues, and are always able to respond promptly to a client’s requests. We have a document management centre that allows our firm to manage physical and electronic documents at rates equal to or less than third party providers, with the added benefit of superior quality control. We believe that our knowledge and effort should be shared with our clients; therefore, as part of our client-focused approach, terminal software systems have been implemented to allow our clients remote access to documents and their related databases, through litigation management software.
Our desire is to be judged on the basis of our skill and experience, as demonstrated by our professional accomplishments, peer recognition, client satisfaction and ongoing performance.
We believe the best results come from a careful balance of creative thinking, applied legal knowledge and sound business sense. This is how we seek to differentiate our services, by using each of these elements in order to deliver practical and effective solutions to difficult and complex problems.
Torkin Manes LLP is a full-service law firm based in downtown Toronto. Founded in 1974, we have built our firm by focusing on the core principles that we believe make a great law firm: a deep and personal understanding of clients’ business needs; a results-oriented approach to practice that provides practical, smart, and cost-effective advice; and, above all, responsiveness to our clients.
Our professionals provide legal counsel to individuals, public and private companies, and buyers and sellers of independent businesses. Our clients range from owner-operators and founders to investment funds and high net worth individuals, who value and trust our deep knowledge, experience and expertise in the Canadian mid-market. We advise our clients on day-to-day legal matters, as well as during the most transformative transactions and critical disputes of their businesses and lives.
When clients require legal services in other jurisdictions, we leverage our affiliation with Meritas, an international network of select law firms of which Torkin Manes is a member, to facilitate the procurement of excellent legal service and counsel worldwide.
Our client-driven approach has brought professional accolades. Torkin Manes has been named the 2024 Regional Law Firm of the Year (Central Canada) at the Canadian Law Awards, in addition to our long-standing recognition as Top Regional Law Firm (Ontario) by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. This firm is also consistently shortlisted as one of Canada's Regional Law Firms of the Year by Chambers and Partners. Our Construction, Corporate & Commercial, Family Law and Real Estate Groups are all recognized on the Globe & Mail’s Best Law Firms in Canada list.
Many of our lawyers are well known throughout the profession and community at large as highly respected leaders in their practice areas, as well as teachers, authors and advocates for the Law Society of Ontario and the Ontario Bar Association.
