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The law firm of Koskie Minsky has established a unique reputation and position within the Canadian legal community as a firm of skilled counsel providing highly experienced and effective legal services to both public and private sector clients.

Widely acknowledged as one of Canada's pre-eminent firms in the areas of Class Action Litigation, Trade Union Labour Law, Employment Law, Civil Litigation and Pension & Benefits, Koskie Minsky continues to build a flexible, multi-faceted practice.

Focussed on the needs of clients, we remain committed to providing authoritative and innovative counsel, cost-effective solutions, and client service of the highest possible quality. Koskie Minsky provides counsel in a wide variety of areas including:

Administrative Law
Class Actions
Commercial Disputes and Commercial Based Litigation
Construction Law
Employment Law
Human Rights and Equity Issues
Occupational Health and Safety
Pension and Benefits Law
Pension and Venture Fund Investments and Administration
Professional Malpractice and Insurance Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Union-Side Labour Law
Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Issues

Koskie Minsky maintains a small-firm atmosphere and team-oriented practice. With the depth and breadth of knowledge and skill at our disposal, we can quickly assemble a professional team to suit the precise needs of each client. Our clients benefit from ongoing access to our skilled legal professionals, over 45 partners and associates, an experienced support staff, comprehensive research and litigation support.

Koskie Minsky devotes substantial resources to continuous monitoring and analysis of legal and public policy issues, which information is shared with clients through seminars, newsletters and training programs. The firm has a rich tradition of ongoing public and community service, providing input and counsel to various government and professional bodies. In addition, members of our firm hold leadership positions in the Law Society of Upper Canada, the governing body of Ontario's legal profession, and other professional associations. Most of the firm's partners have been ranked by the Best Lawyers organization as top practitioners in their respective fields.

The Student Program at Koskie Minsky provides students with the unique and invaluable opportunity to obtain experience in class actions, labour law, civil litigation and pensions and benefits law.

Koskie Minsky takes great pride in attracting and retaining individuals who are the best in their field. We have a friendly firm culture and a wonderful internal support network with a competitive benefits package.

Lawson Lundell LLP is a recognized leader in mining, energy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, banking, pension and tax law, as well as regulatory and commercial litigation and labour and employment law.  The firm has been particularly active recently in a number of high profile transactions and financings in the energy and mining sectors.  Lawson Lundell also acts as lead corporate counsel and offers strategic advice to a wide range of clients in the natural resources, manufacturing and financial industries.

For over 100 years, Lawson Lundell has focussed on the practice of business law in Western Canada.  Our lawyers are highly regarded for their legal ability and experience, and provide our business clients with a full range of legal advice, emphasizing strategy, value and results.

Pitblado LLP has become one of Western Canada's leading law firms by providing exceptional services to businesses and business people, locally, nationally and internationally. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba the firm combines the traditions of Pitblado & Hoskin, formed in 1882, with the entrepreneurial spirit of Buchwald Asper Gallagher Henteleff, founded in 1970. We are proud of our heritage but the future is our business.

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

For over 40 years we have been trusted to litigate the most complex and challenging labour law, and administrative law matters. We have a wealth of experience in all areas of labour relations law and a particular expertise in construction labour law. We have extensive experience in representing professional regulators. As a boutique firm, we are able to focus on the precise litigation and policy needs of our clients. We are devoted to providing excellence in litigation, advice and strategic thinking. Our firm has been repeatedly named by Lexpert as a recommended union-side labour law firm.