The Legal 500 Canada 2018 edition is now live and Bennett Jones’ lawyers and practice areas ranked highly throughout the firm. Bennett Jones has been recommended as a Top-Tier Firm in Canada in:

• Dispute Resolution - Dispute resolution - Alberta
• Energy - Oil and gas
• Environment
• International Trade
• Transport - Aviation

Bennett Jones has also been recommended in 16 practiced areas. 23 of the firm’s lawyers are listed in the elite "Leading Lawyers" list of outstanding lawyers across Canada—and 66 Bennett Jones lawyers are recommended in The Legal 500 Canada 2018 editorial.

The Legal 500 Series is an independent guide now in its 30th year. It is widely acknowledged as the world’s largest legal referral guide, with more than 300,000 corporate counsel are surveyed and interviewed globally each year.

Leading Lawyers

ABORIGINAL LAW - NEXT GENERATION LAWYERS

- Sharon Singh

COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST

- John Rook QC
- Randal Hughes
 

CORPORATE AND M&A

- David Spencer
- Perry Spitznagel QC

DISPUTE RESOLUTION - ALBERTA

- Blair Yorke-Slader QC

DISPUTE RESOLUTION - ONTARIO

- Jeffrey Leon
- Michael Eizenga

ENERGY - MINING

- Sander Grieve

ENERGY - OIL AND GAS

- Lawrence Smith QC
- Loyola Keough
- Patrick Maguire
- Robert Booth QC

ENERGY OIL AND GAS - NEXT GENERATION LAWYER

- Kieran Ryan

ENERGY - POWER

- David Macaulay
- Loyola Keough

ENVIRONMENT

- Leonard Griffiths
- Brad Gilmour

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

- Martin Kratz QC

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

- Darrel Pearson
- Milos Barutciski

REAL ESTATE

- Paul Mantini

RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY

- Kevin Zych
- Richard Orzy

RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY - NEXT GENERATION LAWYER

- Sean Zweig

TAX

- Darcy Moch

TRANSPORT - AVIATION

- Patrick Brennan

Recommended

ABORIGINAL LAW

- David Bursey
- Radha Curpen
- Sharon Singh

BANKING AND FINANCE

- Patrick Brennan
- Philip Backman QC
- Steven Lutz

CAPITAL MARKETS

- Brent Kraus
- Darrell Peterson
- John Piasta
- Linda Misetich Dann

COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST

- John Rook QC
- Melanie Aitken
- Randal Hughes

CORPORATE AND M&A

- Brent Kraus
- David Spencer
- Linda Misetich Dann
- Patrick Maguire
- Perry Spitznagel QC
- William Osler

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

- Blair Yorke-Slader QC
- Jeffrey Leon
- Kenneth Lenz QC
- Michael Eizenga
- Richard Swan
- Robert Staley

ENERGY - MINING

- Abbas Ali Khan
- John Sabine
- Sander Grieve

ENERGY - OIL AND GAS

- Brad Gilmour
- David Spencer
- Donald Greenfield QC
- Kieran Ryan
- Lawrence Smith QC
- Loyola Keough
- Patrick Maguire
- Robert Booth QC
- Vivek Warrier

ENERGY - POWER

- David Macaulay
- Loyola Keough
- Michael Barrett

ENVIRONMENT

- Brad Gilmour
- David Bursey
- Leonard Griffiths
- Radha Curpen
- Shawn Munro

INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROJECTS

- Aleksandra Finelli
- Paul Blundy

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

- Dominique Hussey
- Martin Kratz QC
- Stephen Burns

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

- Darrel Pearson
- Jesse Goldman
- Matthew Kronby
- Milos Barutciski

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

- Carl Cunningham
- John Batzel
- John Gilmore
- Susan Seller

PENSIONS

- Susan Seller

REAL ESTATE

- John van Gent
- Larry Sandrin
- Paul Mantini
- Simon Crawford
- Wayne Whitlock QC

RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY

- Chris Simard
- Kevin Zych
- Richard Orzy
- Sean Zweig

TAX

- Darcy Moch
- Robert McCue
- Stephen Bowman
- Thomas Bauer

TECHNOLOGY

- Barry Reiter
- Martin Kratz QC

TRANSPORT - AVIATION

- Ian Michael
- Patrick Brennan