Bennett Jones
Bennett Jones LLP is a large national law firm based in Canada.
Firm
Bennett Jones is an internationally recognized Canadian law firm. It is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal, and New York.The firm advises clients in a variety of business, industry, and government sectors. Bennett Jones has been recognized as one of Canada's top law firms, with particular recognition for its leadership in energy project development, litigation, financing, real estate, labour, regulatory, and Indigenous law issues.
Notable alumni and advisors
- Hon. John Russell Baird - Former Canadian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Stephen Harper
- Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett – Founding partner and former Prime Minister of Canada
- David A. Dodge – Senior Advisor and former Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Allan Gotlieb – Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America
- Michael Kergin – Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America
- John C. "Jack" Major – Counsel and former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Hon. Anne McLellan – Counsel, former Member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Brig. Henry Grattan Nolan - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Christy Clark - senior advisor and former Premier of British Columbia
- Hon. Jason Kenney - Senior advisor, former Premier of Alberta, former Member of Parliament and Minister of National Defense
History
Bennett Jones was founded in Calgary in 1922 with the dissolution of a 25-year partnership between R.B. Bennett and Sir James Alexander Lougheed and the creation of the new partnership Bennett, Hannah & Sanford.The firm expanded to Edmonton and then eastward to Toronto and Ottawa. In 2018, the firm merged with Vancouver firm McCullough O'Connor Irwin and opened an office in New York.