Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (abbreviated as BLG ) is a full-service Canadian law firm. With nearly two hundred years of history going back to 1823 the establishment of McMaster Gervais, it is the oldest and largest law firm in the country, with offices in Toronto, MontrÃÆ'Â © al, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Calgary. About 700 lawyers, other intellectual property agents and professionals are associated with the company. BLG is governed by a national council composed of partners from across Canada. Sean Weir has been a National Managing Partner of the company since 2000. The company is recognized as Band 1 in 11 practice groups in the 2017 edition of Chambers Global, and is known for its practices in international trade, energy, investment, employment and manpower work, health, shipping, construction, and procurement laws.
Former Canadian Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell, who wrote the landmark decision of Bhasin v. Hrynew on common legal obligations in good faith, and Judge Louise Arbor, currently a jury at the BLG residence, joined the company in 2017 and 2014, respectively.
Over the years, the company has produced two Prime Ministers, dean of law school, appellate court judge, ambassador to the United States, and director of many national companies. It has represented many of Canada's most famous blue chip companies including Hudson's Bay Co., Canadian Pacific Railway, Bank of Montreal, Prudential Life, Alcan, Royal Trust, Bell Canada, General Electric, DuPont and Dominion Textiles. The company also advised the Prince of Wales.
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History
On March 1, 2000, McMaster Gervais law firm from Montreal, Borden & amp; Elliot of Toronto, Ladner Downs from Vancouver, Howard Mackie from Calgary, and Scott & amp; Aylen of Ottawa, merged to create BLG.
In July 2002, BLG strengthened its corporate securities practices by acquiring Calgary-based law firm Armstrong Perkins Hudson LLP - the largest securities boutique in Western Canada.
In 2003, BLG added its sixth office when it joined a lawyer from Armstrong & amp; Partners in the Waterloo Region. The firm is a boutique of the Waterloo Region's intellectual property law. Recently, in January 2008, Shortt Hanbridge Richardson and Welch firms joined the Waterloo Regional BLG office. By the end of 2014, BLG has closed its offices in Waterloo.
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Founder Company
Toronto Borden & amp; Elliot was founded on January 20, 1936, by lawyers Henry Borden and Beverly Vallack Elliot. Henry, at the outbreak of World War II, was appointed to the Supply War Board in Ottawa and in 1942, was appointed chairman of the Time-War Industry Control Board. Over the next three decades, the company experienced a rapid expansion that resulted in many name changes. Finally, the company name was changed back to Borden & amp; Elliot in 1973. At the time of the merger in 2000, Borden & amp; Elliot is a full service company with one of the largest litigation practices in the country, and employs 668 people including more than 230 professionals.
The MontrÃÆ'Â © al firm McMaster Gervais was founded in 1823 when the Honorable William Badgley opened his legal practice at the age of 22. Badgley then became Attorney General for Lower Canada in 1847, and in 1853 became the first dean of McGill's law school, the Oldest in Canada. Badgley's first partner in the company, John Abbott, became Prime Minister of Canada in 1891. At the time of the merger, McMaster Gervais employs 280 people, including 110 professionals. McMaster Gervais was the result of the 1998 merger of McMaster Meighen and Mackenzie Gervais.
The Vancouver Ladner Downs Company was founded in 1911. A few years earlier, in 1909, Leon Ladner was President of the Vancouver Law Students Society who first proposed opening a provincial law school in Vancouver, a proposal that came to work 36 years later when the UBC Faculty of Law opened in 1945. And, in 1917, Ladner sat on a parliamentary committee that drafted the Income War Tax Act - Canada's first income tax law. Leon's son, Thomas Ladner, built and expanded Ladner Downs into one of the premier law firms in British Columbia. At the time of the merger, the company employs 318 people, including 110 professionals. Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister, trained at Ladner Downs before the company's merger.
A fully bilingual Ottawa company, Scott & amp; Aylen was founded in 1952. At the time of the merger, the company employs 168 people, including 62 professionals. The firm brings together lawyers, patent agents, and trademark agents under one roof. Scott & amp; Aylen's founding son, Cuthbert Scott's son David W. Scott (the first non-American to be elected President of the American College of Trial Lawyers), continues to practice in the Ottawa BLG office today and represents the fourth generation of Scott's successive families. practice law in the Ottawa area. Another founder, John A. Aylen Q.C. practiced with the company until he was 89 years old; his son, John G. Aylen Q.C. recently retired from BLG at the age of 86, three years shorter than his father's record. John G. Aylen's son, David Aylen, is also a lawyer who practices IP with Scott & amp; Aylen for 15 years until he joined another company in 1998. David Aylen is now a global IP specialist in Russia.
Calgary, Howard, Mackie law firm was founded in 1888 by William L. Bernard, QC, and is one of the largest in Western Canada. In 1993, led by Doug Mitchell, Howard, Mackie founded Howard, the Mackie Awards (later renamed the BLG Awards). At the time of the merger, the company employs 150 people, including 66 professionals.
Awards and awards
In 2011 - for the fifth year in a row - BLG is recognized as a "Go-To Law Firm" for Fortune 500 companies, and has the most lawyers in Canada with the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.
The company supports various activities by providing pro bono legal services, fund raising and volunteer programs. In 2010, BLG was recognized by Canada Pro Bono Awards 2010 with the Award of the National Legal Agency of Canada for its contribution to the delivery of pro bono legal services across the country.
References
External links
- The Borden Ladner Gervais website
- Borden Ladner Gervais on Twitter
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