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Firm overview

TALENTED: Adair Goldblatt Bieber is one of Canada’s leading litigation boutiques. Our commitment to excellence is recognized by our clients as well as our peers in the legal community. Our lawyers receive some of the highest independent ratings in peer reviewed publications, including Lexpert, Best Lawyers, and Martindale Hubell. Many of our lawyers clerked with appellate courts, were medal and prize winners in their educational careers, and had business and industry experience prior to coming to law.

TENACIOUS: We understand that no client wants to be involved in litigation, but it is sometimes necessary to protect their interests or assert their rights. First and foremost, we are trial and hearing lawyers. We use our expertise to move cases quickly and effectively, while advancing principled positions that are important to our clients. We are forceful advocates, expert in ensuring our clients’ voices are heard by judges, arbitrators, tribunal members, and the other side.

TRUSTED: We are trusted by a diverse client base to handle their most sensitive matters including commercial litigation, professional discipline and liability claims, partnership disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability claims, civil claims for sexual assault and harassment, class actions, public inquiries, product liability claims, employment actions, and defamation claims. We are frequently requested by other lawyers to help their clients in situations where they are unable to assist.

Updated March 2022

Firm overview

Baker McKenzie is a leading global law firm with offices in 78 cities worldwide. Protecting your business in today’s global market requires lawyers with an understanding of local, national, and broader issues. Our Canadian litigation team is integrated with more than 1000 other Baker McKenzie litigators across the globe. Our Canadian Litigation team includes a host of seasoned trial lawyers. We regularly act for clients in complex domestic and multijurisdictional disputes. Our cases frequently involve novel and precedent-setting issues. When providing advice we first do all we can to position our clients and help them avoid litigation. When we need to go to trial, we do so without hesitation. Our team has fought and won some of the most important cases in Canada. When it comes to appellate expertise our team has the experience to conduct appeals across a range of areas, including complex commercial, fraud, employment, labour, intellectual property and administrative/public law matters. 

As part of an integrated global team we ensure that overall business objectives aren’t sacrificed to one-off wins, and that our clients reputation for fair dealing remains intact. With more than 50 years of experience in the Canadian market we are committed to helping clients fulfill their ambitions in an increasingly complex global marketplace. The quality of our work is reflected in the number of the leading global and Canadian multinationals that seek our advice on complex matters in a range of industries including financial services, retail, manufacturing, mining, post-secondary education, professional services, transportation, pharmaceuticals and energy.

Firm overview

Tyr LLP is a litigation firm based in Toronto. Tyr specializes in trial work and providing strategic solutions to complex disputes. Founded by a group of highly experienced litigators from one of Canada’s leading litigation firms, Tyr’s lawyers have an established track record of success, and have been and are involved in a number of precedent-setting cases. Tyr’s lawyers are consistently highly ranked in peer-reviewed publications, including Chambers, Lexpert, Benchmark Canada and Best Lawyers.

Tyr prides itself on excellence of legal services outside of a large firm. We relentlessly strive to reduce extraneous costs and eliminate inefficiencies. We do this by deploying technological innovations in our practice to maximize efficiency while providing top notch legal services. Tyr’s lawyers spearheaded the first all-iPad trial in Canada. Tyr lawyers are equipped with the latest technology which permits them to seamlessly practice anywhere, empowering them to reinvent the traditional practice of law.  

Tyr is committed to providing excellent client service and innovative, practical and efficient solutions that align with its clients’ objectives. Tyr has the expertise and bench strength to take on the biggest and most important cases, and the flexibility to handle smaller matters in an innovative, efficient and cost effective manner.

Firm overview

Glaholt Bowles LLP is a nationally and internationally recognized trusted advisor with dispute resolution and risk management expertise, focusing on construction and design claims, public and private procurement processes, infrastructure development and building contracts. We provide advice and advocacy throughout Canada and internationally at every stage of the construction development process, in all types of projects, from process plants, power generation and transmission, and other heavy industrial projects, to mixed residential/commercial developments, highways and roads, bridges, urban infrastructure and major recreational facilities.

The firm has a strong reputation in all areas of dispute resolution, ranging from litigation to private arbitration and mediation, and in project dispute resolution procedures such as adjudication and dispute review boards.

The firm's lawyers have successfully represented clients throughout Canada and internationally in arbitrations over large-scale construction and infrastructure projects such as oil-pipelines, nickel processing plants, natural gas processing plants, and subways, under various institutional rules and ad hoc arbitrations.

Glaholt Bowles LLP lawyers are consistently rated among the most respected practitioners in the area of construction law.

Updated March 2022