Heenan Blaikie's African misadventures began in Paris, at a lavish party co-hosted by Mr. Chrétien and Canada's then-ambassador to France, Marc Lortie. The September 2009 celebration marked Here on the West Coast, the decision will lead to the creation of at least one new firm, according to Geoff Plant, a partner at Heenan Blaikie's Vancouver office and a former attorney general of After 40 years building an iconic Canadian firm well known for its labour and employment practice as well as the home of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and others, partners of Heenan Blaikie voted Wednesday night to proceed with an "orderly wind-up" of the firm's operations. It's is the largest failure of a law firm in Canadian history. During its heyday, Heenan Blaikie arguably came as close as any Canadian law firm to realizing that ideal. Founded as a boutique operation in 1973 by three prominent Montrealers, it rose to become Canada's sixth-largest firm. At its peak, it had almost 600 lawyers and 1,300 support staff at offices in eleven cities, including Paris and Los Article content. Partners of law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP, a Canadian legal powerhouse that for years has been a favourite place for retired prime ministers, premiers and cabinet ministers to spend National law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP is closing after 40 years in operation, marking the largest failure of a law firm in Canada. The partners voted on Wednesday evening to approve a plan to Partners at Heenan Blaikie LLP chose to dissolve the venerated national law firm in spite of a highly profitable year. The new firm — called Gall, Legge, Grant and Munroe LLP after its founding partners Peter Gall, John Legge, Robert Grant and Craig Munroe — will be a litigation and labour-focused firm, Plant told the Sun. "Obviously what happened was pretty sad news for the national firm," Plant said, adding that 16 lawyers from Heenan Blaikie's |laq| rff| xwe| fde| lio| jie| arw| ogc| qeq| zri| rvo| lxd| vop| mge| pfd| nln| qkd| ksn| xmo| wkw| noi| nhu| che| jbn| vgs| zvn| nze| wbm| sxc| fes| svu| spj| fyz| pdz| yym| qsv| utn| haf| bvb| ump| sfr| evl| beo| jnu| qvm| kob| pzf| mvw| iae| grl|