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Bennett Jones Built a 104-Year Moat Where Canada Gets Complicated
The Calgary-born firm turned resource-law fluency into a national business platform. Its most useful lesson is not to offer everything - it is to earn one difficult wedge, then follow clients into every adjacent problem.
The Law Firm That Built a Business Around the Moment Construction Gets Complicated
Singleton Reynolds made a specialist bet in 1982: learn how projects break, then help clients stop the breakage earlier. Four decades later, that narrow opening has become a national practice spanning contracts, risk, arbitration and the courtroom.
The 109-Year-Old Law Firm That Wins by Staying in One City
Goodmans has no globe-spanning office map to sell. Its bet is more interesting: put 200-plus lawyers in one Toronto tower, give partners the hard files, and make concentration feel like reach.
Cassels Stayed in One City for 124 Years. Then Its Clients Wrote the Expansion Plan.
For more than a century, Cassels barely moved from Toronto’s financial core. Its route to becoming a three-office national business firm offers a practical lesson: let client demand choose the map, then redesign the institution around the work.