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Top Lawyers In Canada In 2020

Dawn Devoe

General counsel, World Vision Canada, Toronto, Ont. Devoe is World Vision's primary legal adviser for its Child for Sale advocacy campaign aimed at ending child labor and human trafficking.  As lead counsel for the Canadian negotiations regarding World Vision's partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme, she has represented the company in global partnership meetings in South Africa, Kenya, and the Philippines.  This venture accounts for more than $30 million of annual food help programmed through World Vision Canada.  With projects in almost 100 nations across the world, Devoe manages a busy legal division and has been able to stay nimble and flexible. What Republicans needed to say: Amazing lawyer and individual.  She not only has a love for the law, but also cares deeply for others and demonstrates that in her work.   Outstanding legal counsel, very inventive problem solver, able to incorporate legal and taxation legislation into a beneficial solution to all parties.

Pascale Fournier

Professor & study seat, legal pluralism and comparative law, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Ottawa, Ont. Fournier has attained international fame for her groundbreaking work on sex, faith, and the law, together with fieldwork interviews with women from various states to highlight the intricate interplay between spiritual and secular law. She's received numerous national and international awards and nominations in 2014.  Fournier became a fellow of the prestigious International Women's Forum because of her role as a leader in the legal profession; getting the Canada-Arab Chamber of Commerce Award for academic excellence and contribution to humankind.  Fournier represented the University of Ottawa as an effective pioneer at the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference and was unanimously appointed by the National Assembly of Quebec into the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission. What Republicans needed to say: Outstanding mind, according [to] Harvard's Prof. Kennedy.

Rocco Galati

Rocco Galati Law Firm PC, Toronto, Ont.  Rocco Galati is famous because of its one-man resistance to the present authorities, so much spending $42,000 of his money on court problems.  He successfully launched a case that blocked Stephen Harper's appointment of Justice Marc Nadon into the Supreme Court of Canada.  His resistance to the appointment of Federal Court of Appeal Justice Robert Mainville to the Quebec Court of Appeal Wasn't as successful.  While he doesn't always win, Galati is dogged in his attempts to defend the Constitution against a government he sees pushing the boundaries using a lack of respect to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  He's now also been elected because bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and it'll be interesting to see exactly what he brings to the law of this profession.What voters needed to say: A true Canadian constitutional and individual rights hero.

Lorne Waldman

Waldman & Associates, Toronto, Ont. Waldman is a good guardian of refugees, immigrants, and human rights.  He has won a variety of significant victories, including healthcare for refugees in Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care v. Canada along with a woman's best to wear the niqab whilst producing her citizenship oath in Ishaq v. Canada with his associate Naseem Mithoowani.  He also argued at the Supreme Court of Canada at J.P. v. Canada and G.J. v. Canada, that Canada's anti-human smuggling provisions must consist of asylum seekers participating in mutual aid.  In addition to Peter Edelmann, he acted on behalf of the CBA from the Harkat case prior to the SCC at 2014.  On the international stage, he represents Mohamed Fahmy (alongside Amal Clooney), the Canadian journalist working for Al Jazeera.  He's also been a vocal opponent of Bill C-51 and modifications to Canada's citizenship law. What voters had to say: Lorne educated us all, particularly today, to preserve democracy and to preserve the rule of law.

Sheila Block

Partner, Torys LLP, Toronto, Ont. One of the sharpest litigators in the country, Block has served as lead counsel on a recently dismissed $5-billion class action lawsuit against CIBC and a $100-million lawsuit brought by roughly 8,000 residents of Barbados from Manulife.  She was also staunch counsel for former Manitoba associate chief justice Lori Douglas from the question of the judge's character in a scandal involving her deceased husband, one of his former customers, and salacious photos of herself submitted online.  Block also received an honorary LLD from the Law Society of Upper Canada this past year.  An urge dedicated to teaching law in Canada and around the world, she has trained advocates for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in Rwanda and the Special Court on Sierra Leone. What Republicans needed to say: Elle demontre son interet a la fois pour l'education du publique et des affaires.  (She's shown her interest for the instruction of the general public and business.)

Louise Arbour

Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Montreal, Que. An international lawyer who has just settled back in Canada, Arbour has certainly earned a place on the Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential record again this year.  She's a winner of the 2015 Simons Foundation Award, realizing world leaders who shape and create an environment for a safer and more just world.  Arbour has spoken out against prolonged use of solitary confinement and has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.   She has been a Supreme Court of Canada judge, an global war crimes prosecutor, and a law school professor.  Her ability to pick things up quickly led her to various roles nationally and globally.  Arbour says economic disparities between and within counties is the number-one inexcusable human rights issue right now.  Always craving new and challenging surroundings, only last year she eventually did something she had never done: joined a law firm in Montreal where she continues to fight for human rights. What Republicans needed to say:Her stunning contributions speak for themselves.  International superstar.