55 LAWYERS RECOGNIZED IN THE 2026 EDITIONS OF BEST LAWYERS IN CANADA™ AND BEST LAWYERS ONES TO WATCH IN CANADA™
Blaney McMurtry is pleased to announce that 55 lawyers across 25 practice areas have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in Canada 2026 in the categories of “Best Lawyers” and “Ones to Watch.”
BEST LAWYERS
The “Best Lawyers” category recognizes leading lawyers by practice area. The following lawyers have been recognized:
- Timothy Alexander (Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation)
- William D. Anderson (Labour and Employment Law)
- Giovanna Asaro (Insurance Law)
- Scott Beeser (Intellectual Property Law)
- John D. Brunt (Commercial Leasing Law)
- Lara Di Genova (Franchise Law)
- Timothy Dunn (Banking and Finance Law; Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law)
- James Edney (Family Law)
- W. Colin Empke (Insurance Law)
- Tim Farrell (Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law)
- Anthony Gatensby (Insurance Law)
- Mark Geiger (Health Care Law; Labour and Employment Law)
- H. Todd Greenbloom (Franchise Law)
- David Greenwood (Labour and Employment Law)
- Brenda Gross (Personal Injury Litigation)
- Chad Kopach (Construction Law)
- Maria Kotsopoulos (Health Care Law)
- David C. N. Ma (FinTech Practice; Information Technology Law; Technology Law)
- David Mackenzie (Insurance Law; Privacy and Data Security Law)
- Jason Mangano (Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Insurance Litigation)
- Eugene G. Mazzuca (Insurance Law)
- Lea Nebel (Construction Law)
- John Papadakis (Corporate Law)
- Roman Pekaruk (Commercial Leasing Law; Real Estate Law)
- John Polyzogopoulos (Corporate and Commercial Litigation)
- Robert J. Potts (Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice)
- D. Barry Prentice (Labour and Employment Law)
- Larry P. Reimer (Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation)
- Margaret E. Rintoul (Trusts and Estates)
- Andrea Rush (Information Technology Law; Intellectual Property Law)
- Neena Sandhu (Immigration Law)
- Jack B. Siegel (Labour and Employment Law; Workers’ Compensation Law)
- Jay A. Skukowski (Personal Injury Litigation)
- Joseph Slavec (Family Law)
- Bruno P. Soucy (FinTech Practice; Information Technology Law)
- Gary Srebrolow (Health Care Law; Personal Injury Litigation)
- Kym Stasiuk (Banking and Finance Law; Real Estate Law)
- Dave Stern (Sports Law)
- Alexandra Teodorescu (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law)
- Brett J. Tkatch (Banking and Finance Law; Real Estate Law)
- Aly Virani (Trusts and Estates)
- Roderick S. W. Winsor (Class Action Litigation; Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law)
- Shawn Wolfson (Real Estate Law)
- Nicholas J. Wong (Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice; Intellectual Property Law)
"ONES TO WATCH”
Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” recognizes “extraordinary lawyers who have been in private practice for less than 10 years in Canada.” The following lawyers have been recognized:
- Sjawal Bhutta (Insurance Law)
- Ned Bozalo (Corporate and Commercial Litigation; Insurance Litigation)
- Alexandra Churchill (Trusts and Estates)
- Rae Daddon (Intellectual Property Law)
- Anna Iourina (Insurance Law)
- Lucas J. Kittmer (Insurance Law)
- Natalie Maltz (Insurance Law)
- Matthew Mariani (Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation)
- Sajila Nudrat (Family Law)
- Vagmi Patel (Corporate and Commercial Litigation)
- Matthew G. Tapia (Corporate Law)
Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is based on a comprehensive, confidential survey of lawyer practitioners across Canada, and lawyers are not permitted to pay a fee to participate or be listed.