Best Lawyers In Canada

Waldman & Associates, Toronto, Ont. Waldman is a good defender of refugees, immigrants, and human rights. He's won a number of important successes, such as healthcare for refugees in Canadian nurses for Refugee Care v. Canada along with a female 's right to wear the niqab whilst producing her citizenship oath in Ishaq v. Canada together with his associate Naseem Mithoowani. In addition, he contended at the Supreme Court of Canada at J.P. v. Canada and G.J. v. Canada, that Canada's anti-human smuggling provisions should consist of asylum seekers engaging in mutual aid. Along with Peter Edelmann, he acted on behalf of the CBA in the Harkat case before the SCC at 2014. On the international stage, he represents Mohamed Fahmy (along with Amal Clooney), the Canadian journalist working for Al Jazeera. He's also been a vocal opponent of Bill C-51 and modifications to Canada's citizenship law. What Republicans needed to say: Lorne educated us all, especially today, to preserve democracy and to preserve the rule of law, immigration services here.

Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Hamilton, Ont. Tamminga has committed his career to automating lawful practices. His information technologies focus started in 1986 while he was still a law student and has been given the job of systemizing the production environment for mortgage files. Ever since then, Tamminga's aptitude for legal technology has only grown with Gowlings LLP. Three decades ago, he was called Gowlings' Innovation Initiatives leader. He's responsible for automating the Gowlings recovery services clinic. He has designed and built a number of additional practice systems in the fields of debt collection, loan placement, and civil litigation. His role has required re-thinking that the thornier aspects of large business operations: managing cultural change, causing client-side thinking, and constructing the reimbursement mechanisms, which induce new behavior. What the panel had to say: Tamminga has shown real vision in handling tough issues that many law firms are not quite prepared to take on.

Assistant general counsel, labour and employment law, Air Canada, Montreal, Que. As chairman of the Canadian Bar Association's Futures Initiative, Headon has given more than 25 presentations to lawyers, law professors, professors, librarians, law firm personnel, and labs from Toronto to Buenos Aires, Victoria to Halifax, in person and online. The Futures report was released in August 2014 and its own recommendations put Headon squarely in the middle of many important discussions on subjects essential to the profession. He continues to lead the Futures steering committee because it now turns its guidelines into actions. Headon is an integral part of the debate about the future of the profession and he was the very first in-house counselor to become the president of the CBA. What voters had to say: Brings energy and decency and the smarts to everything he does.

Creator, Klippensteins Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto, Ont. Back to the next year on the Top 25, Klippenstein's continuing representation of 13 members of the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi' inhabitants from El Estor, Guatemala, continues to make waves. Three associated lawsuits are before the Ontario courts against Canadian mining firm Hudbay Minerals over the brutal killing of Adolfo Ich and the gang rape of 11 women from Lote Ocho. In a precedent-setting judgment in July of 2013, an Ontario court determined that lawsuits can proceed to trial in Canada over the objections of Hudbay Minerals. At home he's also taking on the big guys in a case against Encana Corp. that's hard the law and practice of hydraulic fracking at Canada. What voters had to say: Kudos for standing up for, upholding Canadian values, where we function.

Senior counselor, Torys LLP, Toronto, Ont. This heated justice has set the bar for authorities treatment of the mentally ill. His 2014 landmark report summarized 84 sound ways of helping to prevent shooting of mentally ill people by the Toronto Police. The implementation of this report would go a long way toward avoiding disastrous confrontations between police and emotionally disturbed individuals. Some of the recommendations include using body-worn cameras and optimized use of tasers. The report is a strong message that the status quo is no more okay. As a Torys counsel, Iacobucci is accustomed to advising government and company on important legal and policy matters. What Republicans needed to say: Has anyone actually done more? and Energetic, never ceases, best lawyer.