Bennett Jones LLP is a large national

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based in Canada.

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Bennett Jones is an internationally recognized Canadian law firm. It is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—

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. The firm advises clients in a variety of business, industry, and government sectors. Bennett Jones has been recognized as one of Canada's top law firms, with particular recognition for its leadership in energy project development, litigation, financing, real estate, labour, regulatory, and Indigenous law issues.

Notable alumni and advisors

* Hon. John Russell Baird - Former Canadian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2011–15) * Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett , 1st Viscount Bennett – Founding partner and former Prime Minister of Canada (1930–35) Batten, Jack (1997). ''A History of Bennett Jones Verchere''. Bennett Jones Verchere. . * David A. Dodge – Senior Advisor and former Governor of the

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(2001–08) *

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– Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America (1981–89) * Michael Kergin – Senior advisor and former Canadian ambassador to the United States of America (2000–05) * John C. "Jack" Major – Counsel and former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1992–2005) *Hon.

Anne McLellan A. Anne McLellan (born August 31, 1950) is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin ...

– Counsel, former Member of Parliament (1993–2006) and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (2003–06) *Brig. Henry Grattan Nolan - Former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1956–57) *

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- senior advisor and former Premier of British Columbia (2011–2017) *Hon.

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- Senior advisor, former Premier of Alberta (2019–2022), former Member of Parliament (1997-2016) and Minister of National Defense (2015)

History

Bennett Jones was founded in Calgary in 1922 with the dissolution of a 25-year partnership between R.B. Bennett and Sir James Alexander Lougheed (Lougheed, Bennett & Company) and the creation of the new partnership Bennett, Hannah & Sanford. The firm expanded to Edmonton (1982) and then eastward to Toronto (1989) and Ottawa (1989–95, 2009). In 2018, the firm merged with Vancouver firm McCullough O'Connor Irwin and opened an office in New York.

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