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Bay Street watches as Heenan Blaikie tries to regroup
As Heenan Blaikie LLP’s senior partners try and figure out what the next move should be for the iconic Canadian firm that has seen large groups of lawyers jumping ship for the last 18 months, the legal...
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Heenan partners to vote on firm's future tonight: source
As of lunchtime today, Heenan Blaikie LLP has lost at least 11 more lawyers to rival firms and sources say the partners will be voting on the firm’s dissolution at a meeting tonight.While rumours of...
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Heenan Blaikie is no more
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...
View ArticleHeenan’s big deals and the clients they served
By now you’ve heard that prestigious Montreal-based law firm Heenan Blaikie LLP is closing down after a partner vote yesterday. The focus for now seems to be on what could have precipitated the drop in...
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New Vancouver firm arises from Heenan’s ashes
Two of the world’s largest law firms are picking off lawyers from Heenan Blaikieas it moves to wind down in the biggest collapse of a law firm in the country’s history.The demise of the firm has...
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For BCF it’s about a growth strategy but can others really absorb Heenan...
For a growing firm like Quebec regional firm BCF Business Law, opening its doors to more than 30 lawyers and support staff from the former Heenan Blaikie LLP Montreal office means it can accelerate its...
View ArticleGroup moves of Heenan lawyers continue
Big Law firms continued to strike deals with former Heenan Blaikie LLP lawyers this week in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal as the much-admired labour and employment group continued to be split up as...
View ArticleHeenan severance packages 'really shady'
Support staff at Heenan Blaikie LLP say they have at last received information about their severance packages, and they're not happy about it.Some employees say they are being told they’ll receive...
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The Top 10 Canadian legal ethics stories of 2014
For the last two years I have written up the Top 10 Canadian legal ethics stories for the prior year (2013 and 2012). This year I initially wondered whether it would be possible to identify 10...
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