Smart & Biggar recognized as the top-ranked firm for Canadian IP law in the 2016 edition of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory — only firm chosen at the top of the rankings in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

Smart & Biggar’s position as frontrunners in IP law across Canada has yet again been solidified with the newest edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.  A remarkable 24 lawyers have been selected to appear in this year’s edition as “Lexpert-Ranked” lawyers.  Their diligent work and dedication has gained us top recognition as the only Canadian firm to be listed as the “Most frequently recommended” firm in Ottawa, Toronto, and “Consistently Recommended” Montreal and Vancouver. 

This year our lawyers were ranked across four categories of Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Litigation, Biotechnology and Computer & IT Law:

Selected in Intellectual Property
Mark Biernacki
Christian Bolduc
Allan Brett
Mark Evans
Ronald Faggetter
Gunars Gaikis
Steven Garland
François Guay
Sheldon Hamilton
Colin Ingram
Yoon Kang
Daphne Lainson
Philip Lapin
Timothy Lo
Nancy Pei
Christopher Robinson
David Schwartz
Keltie Sim Luft
Elliott Simcoe
Alistair Simpson
Kohji Suzuki
Ekaterina Tsimberis
Matthew Zischka

Selected in Litigation - Intellectual Property
Mark Evans
Gunars Gaikis
Steven Garland
François Guay
Sheldon Hamilton
Yoon Kang
Timothy Lo
Nancy Pei

Selected in Biotechnology
Gunars Gaikis
Yoon Kang
Daphne Lainson
Nancy Pei
Christopher Robinson 
David Schwartz

Selected in Computer & IT Law
Theodore Sum

The publishers of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory identify leading law firms and practitioners by thoroughly surveying over ten thousand respected Canadian lawyers, corporate counsel and other professionals across 64 practice areas.

For more details on the 2016 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory please visit their website at Lexpert.ca.