Advocacy Matters - Spring 2024
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LAW FIRM DISSOLUTION<br />
Law Firm Dissolutions:<br />
Canary in the Coal Mine?<br />
Wade Poziomka, Ross & McBride LLP<br />
Over the past two decades, several well-known law firms suddenly shut their doors. These closures<br />
continue to cause a stir in the legal community and shake the stability and safety that lawyers,<br />
who are typically conservative by nature, crave. The first was Goodman and Carr LLP in 2007.<br />
Heenan Blaikie LLP was next in 2014. And only months ago, Minden Gross LLP – a firm with about<br />
65 lawyers and over 100 staff, dissolved. All three were large, reputable firms with a long history<br />
in the Canadian legal landscape.<br />
To gain insight into these closures, I had the privilege of speaking with Enzo Sallese and Timothy<br />
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