Bennett Jones
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| Headquarters | Calgary and Toronto |
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| No. of offices | 10 |
| No. of attorneys | 360 |
| No. of employees | 550 |
| Major practice areas | Energy & Natural Resources, Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Climate Change & Emissions Trading, Commercial Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Banking & Finance, Taxation, Major Infrastructure Projects |
| Date founded | 1922 (Calgary) |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| www.bennettjones.com | |
Bennett Jones LLP is an international law firm based in Canada.
Firm
The firm has five offices in Canada (Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver), one in Qatar (Doha), one in the USA (Washington, DC) (practising Canadian law only), and one in Bermuda, with a representative office in China (Beijing).
It has more than 900 lawyers and staff, including a former deputy prime minister of Canada, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and two former Canadian ambassadors to the United States of America.
Notable alumni
- R. B. Bennett – Founding partner and former Prime Minister of Canada (1930-35) [1]
- David A. Dodge – Senior Advisor and former Governor of the Bank of Canada (2001-08) [2]
- Allan Gotlieb, CC – Senior Advisor and former Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America (1981-89)[3]
- Michael Kergin – Senior Advisor and former Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America (2000-05) [4]
- John C. Major ("Jack") – Counsel and former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1992–2005)[5][6]
- Anne McLellan, PC, OC – Counsel, former Member of Parliament (1993–2006) and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (2003-06)[7]
- Henry Grattan Nolan, MC - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1956-57)[8]
- Sheridan Scott – Partner and former Canadian Commissioner of Competition (2004-09)[9]
History
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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 (Lougheed, Bennett & Company) and the creation of the new partnership Bennett, Hannah & Sanford.[1]
- 2010 – Bennett Jones opens a representative office in Beijing [10] and the first law office of Bennett Jones (Middle East) LLP in Dubai, making the firm the first Canadian law firm licensed to practice in the UAE[11]
- 2011 – Bennett Jones opens an office in Abu Dhabi, its second office in the UAE[12]
- 2012 – Bennett Jones opens an office Doha, Qatar, its third office in the Middle East[13]
- 2013 - Bennett Jones closes Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices.
- 2014 - Bennett Jones opens first office in the USA, in Washington, DC, exclusively practising "Canadian law with a focus on competition and antitrust, and issues confronting US and international businesses in Canada". [14]
- 2014 - Bennett Jones opens offices in Vancouver[15] and Bermuda
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Batten, Jack (1997). A History of Bennett Jones Verchere. Bennett Jones Verchere. ISBN 0-9682994-0-7.
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Further reading
- Saucier, J.J. (1982). The Bennett Firm: Revisited. Bennett Jones.
- Batten, Jack (1997). A History of Bennett Jones Verchere. Bennett Jones Verchere. ISBN 0-9682994-0-7.
