For the fifth year running, The Globe and Mail partnered with Statista to survey legal practitioners across Canada—including lawyers, legal executives and in-house counsel—to determine which law firms are held in the highest esteem. Statista recorded 11,000 recommendations for firms across 31 fields, from Aboriginal and Indigenous law to white-collar crime, yielding a list of 200 firms that received the highest number of recommendations in their field. Plus, we profiled the 20 firms that ranked No. 1 in each category (with some garnering the top spot in more than one realm).
OUR METHODOLOGY
Almost 25,000 lawyers, along with in-house counsel and legal executives working in legal departments across Canada, were invited to take part in the 2026 survey. The sample was collected via research by Statista on company websites and further public available sources. Invitations were sent by email with a personalized link that could only be used once.
In addition, lawyers and clients could participate in the survey via an open link. In these cases, the participants had to validate themselves by providing a personal company email address before their answers were included in the evaluation. The link was announced and made available online on The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine website.
The survey, available in English and French, was conducted online between April 7 and May 30, 2025. Statista recorded 11,000 recommendations for law firms across 31 different fields of law. Self-recommendations (or recommendations of one’s own firm) were prohibited, and these recommendations were not included.
Participants were asked to answer optional editorial questions. There was also an opportunity to answer questions focused specifically on developments in the Canadian legal world.
Canada’s Best Law Firms were identified based on the number of recommendations they received in a respective legal field. The lists of top firms were determined after careful examination, based on the available data. The research team endeavoured to be as complete in its reach as possible, within reasonable means.
About Statista: Statista publishes worldwide rankings and company listings with high-profile media partners. This research and analysis service is based on the success of statista.com, a leading data and business intelligence portal that provides statistics, business-relevant data, and various market and consumer studies and surveys. For information about the methodology, contact
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jannik.petersen@statista.com.
