Heenan Blaikie

Auteur

Adam Dodek is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Among his numerous publications are In Search of the Ethical Lawyer; The Canadian Constitution, Third Edition, named by the Hill Times as one of the top 100 books on Canadian public policy; and Solicitor-Client Privilege, which won the Walter Owen Book Prize. He is a recipient of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Prize for Academic Excellence, the Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing, and the Law Society of Ontario's Law Society Medal. He is also a director of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics and the Canadian Legal Information Institute, and a past governor of the Law Commission of Ontario.

Texte du rabat

What really happened at Heenan Blaikie? This is the ultimate account of what went on behind the scenes of the largest law firm dissolution in Canadian history.

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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