Legal business March 17, 2011

Largest Quebec & Canadian law firms

Largest firms in Quebec

1	Ogilvy Renault	234
2	Heenan Blaikie	228
3	Fasken Martineau	218
4	Stikeman Elliot	170
5	Lavery de Billy	167
6	McCarthy Tétrault	165
7	Cain Lamarre Casgrain Wells	161
8	Borden Ladner Gervais	121
9	BCF	98
10	Joli-Cœur Lacasse	96
11	Langlois Kronström Desjardins	91
12	Gowling Lafleur Henderson	90
13	FMC	86
14	Dunton Rainville	85
15	Davies	82
16	Lapointe Rosenstein	80
17	De Grandpré Chait	71
18	Robinson Sheppard Shapiro	71
19	Blakes	67
20	Osler Harcourt	58

Largest firms in Canada

1	Borden Ladner Gervais	781
2	Gowling Lafleur Henderson	752
3	Fasken Martineau	686
4	McCarthy Tétrault	609
5	Blake Cassels & Graydon	597
6	Heenan Blaikie	534
7	Fraser Milner Casgrain	512
8	Stikeman Elliott	503
9	Miller Thomson	464
10	Osler Hoskin &Harcourt	458
11	Ogilvy Renault	447
12	McMillan	395
13	Bennett Jones	362
14	Macleod Dixon	268
15	Torys	249
16	Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg	240
16	Davis	240
17	Goodmans	208
19	Cassels Brock & Blackwell	207
20	Lavery de Billy	172

Sources: Droit-inc.com and Law Times.

Luis Millán

I am an award-winning legal and business journalist. I have written for Canadian Lawyer, the National, a magazine published by the Canadian Bar Association, and The Lawyers Daily and The Lawyer's Weekly, an independent legal Canadian publication. This website is in no way affiliated with any of these publications.

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