Smart & Biggar tops the rankings for IP law in 2018 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory
Smart & Biggar confirms its position as a leader in IP law across Canada in the most recent edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
Through our lawyers’ diligent client focus and outstanding expertise the firm earned top scores for IP across Canada, as “Most frequently recommended” in Ottawa, Toronto, and the only Canadian firm to also be “Consistently Recommended” in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
23 of the firm’s lawyers have been selected to appear in this year’s edition as “Lexpert-Ranked” lawyers across several categories including Intellectual Property, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, and Computer & IT Law.
Congratulations to all of our “Lexpert-Ranked” lawyers:
Intellectual Property
- Daniel Anthony
- Mark Biernacki
- Christian Bolduc
- Allan Brett
- Mark Evans
- Ronald Faggetter
- Gunars Gaikis
- Steven Garland
- François Guay
- Sheldon Hamilton
- Yoon Kang
- Daphne Lainson
- Philip Lapin
- Nancy Pei
- Christopher Robinson
- David Schwartz
- Keltie Sim Luft
- Alistair Simpson
- Kohji Suzuki
- Ekaterina Tsimberis
- Matthew Zischka
Litigation - IP
- Daniel Davies
- Mark Evans
- Gunars Gaikis
- Steven Garland
- François Guay
- Sheldon Hamilton
Biotechnology
- Gunars Gaikis
- Steven Garland
- Yoon Kang
- Daphne Lainson
- Nancy Pei
- Christopher Robinson
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 2018 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory please visit their website at Lexpert.ca.
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Smart & Biggar is recognised as Canada’s largest and leading firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary.
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