Welcome to the Chambers Canada Guide 2026. Search the legal market's top Canadian law firms and lawyers using the search functionality above.  

Chambers Canada differentiates the best legal talent across a range of provincial, national and international law firms based across the country, to assist those looking for the most suitable providers of legal services for when it matters.    

Each ranking is based on the Chambers ranking system which is established from the most in-depth market analysis and comprehensive independent research, that is unrivalled in accuracy, depth and quality and carried out by our experienced team of London-based researchers.    

The Chambers Canada team continues to work with law firms of all sizes, from small local boutique firms to large full-service law firms to ensure we champion exceptional talent wherever it exists and deliver unparalleled and indispensable insights.    

Welcome to the Chambers Canada Guide 2026. Search the legal market's top Canadian law firms and lawyers using the search functionality above. 

To find out more about our research process and how we rank firms please see our  methodology page.   

Keep up to date with all of your relevant submission deadlines throughout the year and get personalised submission reminders in your calendar here. 

To ensure you are on our mailing list for future submission deadlines, please email Tom Lambert here. 

The 2026 release was the 11^th edition of a dedicated Canada Guide at Chambers & Partners and our core methodology remained the same. Our skilled team of researchers conducted in-depth research into the Canadian legal market between February and June 2025. 

During this time our researchers spent several months carefully analysing law firm submissions and conducting thousands of interviews with client referees to ensure our knowledge and understanding of each submitting practice was extensive, allowing us to provide market-leading reviews and rankings. 

Each year, law firms of all sizes, from national and international law firms to provincial boutiques submit to Chambers Canada for recognition. Firms submit both a submission document detailing recent work, and a list of referees they wish to be contacted, and our dedicated research team will make ranking determinations on the basis of the resulting information. 

The number of firms submitting for recognition continues to increase year on year, with the 2026 Canada Guide seeing 200 law firms providing our research team with information. 

Any law firm or lawyer within Canada is eligible for recognition in the guide. For more information on how to submit for recognition, please see our onboarding page here. 

The Canada Guide continues to accept up to 30 referees per section, up from the previous limit of 20. This has helped the depth of our research, with the Canada Team this year conducting almost 2,500 interviews.

Due in part to the increased feedback levels we received as a result, we were able to ensure that our recognition of lawyers and law firms accurately reflects the state of each market by making changes where appropriate. 

The Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded tables in the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Québec continue to showcase the increasing prominence of lawyers and firms acting on contentious mandates on a provincial level.

In Ontario, the depth of our research into the development of the litigation market has meant we have introduced a new Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite table for this province specifically.

You can review this new table at the link above. For more information or to suggest new practice areas for Chambers Canada to research into, please email Tom Lambert here.

We continuously strive to partner with all law firms to ensure their female partners and associates are included in our research process, as diversity and inclusion in the legal market are vital focuses. In the 2026 Canada Guide, 31% of ranked lawyers are female. This is an increase of 1% on last year and will continue to be a priority in future guides to ensure the accuracy of our research findings.

An ongoing focus of the Canada Guide is to continue to enhance our coverage of both associates and younger partners in the guide to ensure that we remain at the forefront of identifying the next generation of elite lawyers in the Canadian legal market.   

By instructing the research team to pay particular attention to the presence of associates and recently promoted partners on submission documents, and then cross-reference this against the lawyers attracting significant positive commentary from clients and market sources, we were able to achieve the following increases in recognition: 

Chambers Canada 2026 Research Schedule
The Chambers Canada team share an update and insight into the research schedule for the 2026 guide. 

Chambers Canada Awards 2024
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Key Findings from Research for the 2023 Canada Guide
In this podcast, James Roberts, Head of Canada Research discuss the key results from the Chambers Canada 2023 Guide with Senior Research Analyst Tom Lambert

Diversity and Inclusion in the Chambers Canada 2023 Guide
Learn about the initiatives put in place during research into the Chambers Canada 2023 Guide, to help our rankings reflect a diverse and inclusive legal market, and discover the key results from our research.

The Chambers Methodology involves our Research Analysts collecting information about submitting firms to learn more about their practice, services and previous work to allow our rankings and analysis to reflect the strengths of the top law firms across Canada.  

To learn more about how we research the market and rank firms and lawyers, please visit our methodology page.