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TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS 2026
TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS 2026
CHANGEMAKERS
Patrick Brown
Principal Partner
McLeish Orlando LLP
Phone: 866 683 3311
Email: info@mollp.com
Website: mcleishorlando.com
Yameena Ansari
Founding Lawyer
Ansari Immigration Law
Phone: 647 494 8299
Email: immigrate@ansarilaw.ca
Website: ansarilaw.ca
Brendon Pooran
Managing Partner
PooranLaw
Amy Salyzyn
Associate Professor and Dean's Research Professor in
Technology and Justice Futures
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Paul Saunders
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer and Partner
Stewart McKelvey
BUSINESS
Yola Ventresca
Managing Partner
Lerners LLP
Phone: 519 640 6378
Email: yventresca@lerners.ca
Website: lerners.ca
Claudia Desjardins Bélisle
Office Managing Partner
Miller Thomson LLP
Shahir Guindi
Partner, Corporate, Former National Co-Chair
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Martha Harrison
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Raj Juneja
Partner and Co-Head of the National Tax Group
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
HUMAN RIGHTS, ADVOCACY, CRIMINAL
Elizabeth Bowker
Partner
Stieber Berlach LLP
Phone: 416 594 4677
Email: ebowker@sblegal.ca
Website: sblegal.ca/lawyer/elizabeth-bowker
Gideon Christian
Associate Professor and Research Chair in AI and Law
University of Calgary
Michael Rosenberg
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Muneeza Sheikh
Founding Partner
Muneeza Sheikh Employment and Human Rights
Stephanie Willsey
Lawyer
Cochrane Sinclair LLP
IN-HOUSE
Farah Ismail
Senior Vice-President, Chief Legal, Privacy and Compliance Officer
SE Health
Phone: 416 722 7882
Email: farahismail@sehc.com
Website: sehc.com
Christine Chen
Chief Legal Officer
University Pension Plan Ontario
Rustam Juma
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Privacy Officer
Volkswagen Group Canada
Arun Krishnamurti
Senior Counsel
Google Canada
Lorne O'Reilly, K.C.
Lead Counsel
Dow Chemical Canada ULC
GOVERNMENT, NON-PROFITS, ASSOCIATIONS, JUDICIARY
Justice Colin C.J. Feasby
Justice
Alberta Court of King's Bench
Michael Geist
Professor
University of Ottawa
Honourable Niki Sharma
Deputy Premier and Attorney General of British Columbia
Justice Michael Tulloch
President and Chief Justice of Ontario
Court of Appeal for Ontario
The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
Chief Justice of Canada
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