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Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest and highest ranked intellectual property firm. Our reputation and strength is a measure of the quality of our people, and we are proud to have the broadest and deepest bench for IP in Canada. With over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents, we offer legal expertise and technological knowledge across a wide range of industries and scientific and engineering disciplines, with leaders in every field.

Services

Today’s fast-paced innovation economy demands a higher level of expertise and attention to detail when it comes to IP. Our highly skilled team of lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents advise clients on a wide variety of strategic business, brand and technology matters leveraging their deep expertise in intellectual property to help them succeed with IP.

Industries

Across all industries, intellectual property is at the heart of innovation and is key to accelerating business value and growth. Developing a clear IP strategy and knowing how to tap and leverage IP to align with business goals can unlock competitive advantages and make the difference between industry leaders and followers.

Insights

At the forefront of IP in Canada, and actively involved as leaders in industry committees and associations, we stay up-to-date and proactively report on the latest developments in intellectual property law in Canada and around the world. Breaking IP news, changes in the law, important new decisions, and information on key IP issues are provided here through our IP publications and resources.

Careers

Many of the world's most commercially important innovators and most prominent brands trust Smart & Biggar to protect and enforce their IP and to provide them with strategic IP counsel. We have developed a reputation as a firm of talented lawyers and patent and trademark agents with integrity, business savvy and tremendous acumen. That’s why we look for the brightest people with combined talent and strengths in law, business, science and technology.

Who we are

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property, and with over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in five offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar short-listed by LMG for 10 ‘Women in Business Law’ awards celebrating law firm diversity and inclusion practices

August 05, 2020

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share that we have been short-listed, on both a firm and individual level, in 10 categories offered at the 2020 Women in Business Law Americas Awards.

These annual awards, hosted by LMG Euromoney, recognize North and South America’s leading women in business law and law firms that have developed the most progressive initiatives towards diversity and inclusion. Winners will be announced online in a virtual ceremony on September 17, 2020.

Individual nominees include Toronto partner Alice Tseng, shortlisted for Life Sciences, and Ottawa partner and firm chair Daphne Lainson short-listed for both Life Sciences and Patents. All short-listed nominees are selected based on peer review from leading female practitioners, as well as research from LMG's survey results and directory analysis.

Smart & Biggar was also nominated for an impressive seven North American firm categories, including “Best Firm” for: Gender Diversity; Diversity (overall); Mentoring Programme; Work-Life Balance; Talent Management; Women in Business Law; and Leading Canadian Firm. All short-listed law firms are selected based on their strong and innovative practices and programmes that highlight women and diversity.

Last year Smart & Biggar was awarded ‘Best National Firm for Diversity (North America)' in recognition of our commitment to advocacy for all team members, enabling personal and professional growth – both inside and outside the organization – and our support of work-life balance.

The Women in Business Law Awards are an opportunity for leading female lawyers to recognize individuals, teams and firms who are leading the way in their field and setting a new standard in progressive work practices.

View all shortlisted firms and individuals here.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century.

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