Heenan Blaikie

Heenan Blaikie

The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm

Dodek, Adam

University of British Columbia Press

11/2024

396

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9780774870733

15 a 20 dias

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Preface

Prologue: What a Party!

Foundations

1 The Handshake: Creating a New Law Firm

2 Building a Law Firm: The First Decade in Montreal

3 The Game Changer: Pierre Trudeau Comes on Board

4 "A Different Kind of Law Firm": Creating a Unique Culture

5 On the Verge: A Law Firm Seeking to Go Where?

6 Launching Toronto: Moving to the Centre of the Universe

7 Joe Groia: An Outsider among Outsiders

8 Toronto in the 1990s: Building an Office, Building a Brand

9 The Culture Crystallizes: "A Kinder, Gentler Law Firm"

10 Not Torys? Struggling to Define an Identity and a Vision

Erosion

11 The Donaldson Interlude: Everyone Deserves a Second Chance

12 The Lure of Growth: Becoming a National Law Firm

13 The Critical Years: 1993-98

14 The New Millennium: The Culture Begins to Fray

15 A "Hotel for Lawyers": Law Firm Partnerships

16 "A Family Business": Governance and Management

17 Bigger than the Firm: Marcel Aubut

18 The Persistence of White Male Power: Women and Diversity in Big Law

19 The End of the Decade: End of the Dream

Collapse

20 The Money Wells Dry Up: Castor Holdings and Atomic Energy

21 We'll Always Have Paris: International Follies

22 Lawyers, Guns, and Money: African Misadventures

23 Double Trouble: Botched Succession

24 Quicksand and Crisis: Coffee and Kleenex

25 Implosion: The Final Weeks

26 Cleaning Up: When a Law Firm Fails

Conclusion

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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