Bennett Jones LLP is a
law firm based in Canada.
Firm
Bennett Jones is a Canadian business law firm with 400 lawyers and business advisors.
The firm has five offices in Canada (
Calgary,
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
,
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city ancho ...
,
Ottawa and
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
), and one in the United States (
New York, NY) (practicing Canadian law only).
Notable alumni and advisors
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John Baird (Canadian politician)
John Russell Baird (born May 26, 1969) is a retired Canadian politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He had been a member of the federal cabinet, in various po ...
- Former Canadian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2011–15)
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R. B. Bennett – Founding partner and former Prime Minister of Canada (1930–35)
[Batten, Jack (1997). ''A History of Bennett Jones Verchere''. Bennett Jones Verchere. .]
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David A. Dodge – Senior Advisor and former Governor of the
Bank of Canada (2001–08)
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Allan Gotlieb
Allan Ezra Gotlieb, (February 28, 1928 – April 18, 2020) was a Canadian public servant and author who served as the Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Life and career
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gotlieb studied at ...
, CC – Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America (1981–89)
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Michael Kergin – Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America (2000–05)
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John C. Major ("Jack") – Counsel and former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1992–2005)
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Anne McLellan, PC, OC – Counsel, former Member of Parliament (1993–2006) and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (2003–06)
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Henry Grattan Nolan, MC - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1956–57)
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Christy Clark
Christina Joan Clark (born October 29, 1965) is a former Canadian politician who was the 35th premier of British Columbia (BC), from 2011 to 2017. Clark was the second woman to be premier of BC, after Rita Johnston in 1991, and the first female ...
- senior advisor and former Premier of British Columbia (2011-2017)
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
Sir James Alexander Lougheed, ( or ; 1 September 1854 – 2 November 1925) was a businessman, lawyer and politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a senator for 35 years, and held a number of Cabinet positions.
Early life
Lougheed was bor ...
(Lougheed, Bennett & Company) and the creation of the new partnership Bennett, Hannah & Sanford.
The firm expanded to Edmonton (1982) and then eastward to Toronto (1989) and Ottawa (1989–95, 2009). In 2010, the firm opened a representative office in Beijing. In 2018, the firm merged with Vancouver firm McCullough O'Connor Irwin and opened an office in New York.
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Notes
Further reading
*Saucier, J.J. (1982). ''The Bennett Firm: Revisited''. Bennett Jones.
*Batten, Jack (1997). ''A History of Bennett Jones Verchere''. Bennett Jones Verchere. .
External links
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Law firms of Canada
Law firms established in 1922
1922 establishments in Alberta
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