Stikeman Elliott
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| Headquarters | CIBC Tower Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| No. of offices | 8 |
| No. of attorneys | approx. 500 |
| No. of employees | approx. 1300 (500 lawyers) |
| Major practice areas | Corporate Law |
| Key people | H. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott |
| Date founded | 1952 (Montreal) |
| Founder | H. Heward Stikeman & Fraser Elliott |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www.stikeman.com |
Stikeman Elliott LLP is an international corporate law firm based in Canada. It is known as one of the "seven sisters" in Toronto[1] and has approximately 500 lawyers in five Canadian offices as well as offices in New York, London, and Sydney.[2] It was founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott.[3]
History of the firm
Stikeman Elliott's history as a law firm began in 1952, when Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott established a tax boutique firm in Montreal. The firm expanded throughout the ensuing years, eventually becoming one of the largest full-service business law firms in Canada. Notably, this growth has come exclusively through the hiring of new lawyers or laterals from other firms - Stikeman Elliott has never merged with another firm, one of the few Bay Street firms to not do so.[4] When it expanded to Toronto in 1970, two new partners were added, Donald Bowman and John Robarts, and the Toronto office became Stikeman, Elliott, Robarts and Bowman.
Notable lawyers and alumni
- Donald Bowman, subsequently chief justice of the Federal Tax Court of Canada
- Suzanne Côté, puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Allan Gotlieb, Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989
- Donald Johnston, former federal cabinet minister and served as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006
- Antonio Lamer, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Senior Counsel (2000-2007)
- Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environmental and Climate Change
- Dick Pound, former VP of the IOC and former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency and author of Stikeman Elliott: the first fifty years (McGill-Queen's Press, 2002)[5]
- John Robarts, former premier of Ontario
- John Sopinka, former puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
Career Programs
Stikeman Elliott offers a summer student program and a law articling student program.[6]