2015 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory now online

The 2015 annual Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory is now online. Check out which lawyers across Canada have been identified as leading in their areas of practice.
2015 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory now online
The 2015 annual Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory is now online. Check out which lawyers across Canada have been identified as leading in their areas of practice.

This nineteenth annual edition of the Directory identifies leading practitioners in over 60 separate Canadian
 practice areas and leading law firms in over 40 separate Canadian practice areas.

The identification of leading firms and practitioners is based upon comprehensive survey work which has taken place across Canada starting in 1994. The research work is continuous in all practice areas and updated versions of 
are published on an annual basis. Our research team contacts and surveys leading practitioners in all practice areas.

Leading practitioners are asked whom they regard as the leading practitioners in their practice area in their city and province and then, to the extent they are able, who they regard as other leading practitioners in the field across Canada.

The survey work is strictly confidential.

We have enjoyed an unusually high response rate in the survey work with returns generally ranging between 50 and 80 per cent from the targeted population,
 i.e., leading practitioners. We attribute this success to one principal factor: The survey work does not proceed by way of a random, unsolicited mail-out of questionnaires. Rather, in each case, a member of our research team contacts the practitioner, explains the survey process and secures his or her agreement to complete the questionnaire. A questionnaire is then sent and, if not returned within a set date, follow-up calls are made. Personal interviews with the more senior members of the profession are often conducted in lieu of a completed questionnaire.

During the course of 2014 our research team made 12,029 requests for completed questionnaires from lawyers, corporate counsel, and other professionals. It was not uncommon for a practitioner to be approached on two or more occasions with respect to related practice areas such as banking and insolvency or asset securitization and corporate finance. As a result of the requests made, 9,954 completed questionnaires were received, with an overall national response rate from law firm practitioners of 82.8 per cent.