Lenczner Slaght Recognized as a Top Tier Civil Litigation Firm

Since the last time Canadian Lawyer published the Top Civil Litigation Boutiques list, Lenczner Slaght has been “extraordinarily busy,” says managing partner Tom Curry. Active, as always, on the Toronto commercial list, the firm has also expanded its work outside its home province of Ontario — with class proceedings and other commercial litigation in Atlantic Canada, the Prairies and B.C.  

In June 2019, the firm launched ReferToHer, initiated by partners Sana Halwani and Shara Roy. The initiative provides a rolodex of stand-out female lawyers for other lawyers looking to refer a file. In January, in partnership with McCarthy Tétrault, it launched ReferToHer Corporate, to expand the service to the areas of public and private M&A, private equity and securities and capital markets. 

“The data shows that people, when they refer cases to lawyers, they tend to think of the men before the women,” says Curry. “This is a way of keeping our female colleagues at the bar in the minds of people who are referring conflict work. And that's been a tremendous success.” 

This year also began with the news of the retirement of civil litigation icon and firm founder Alan Lenczner.