Welcome to the Chambers Canada Guide 2025. 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 2024. 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.   

Submission deadlines for the 2026 Canada Guide will be announced soon – when released, you will access the full schedule here.  

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

The 2025 release was the 10^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 2024. 

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 2025 Canada Guide seeing 165 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. 

Following the success of the 2024 Canada Guide, for the 2025 Canada Guide we continued to accept an increased number of referees, 30 per section, up from the previous limit of 20. 

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. 

Over the past 2 years, our research team has seen a notable uptick in submissions received from litigation boutique law firms, as well as the litigation departments of full-service single-province boutique law firms. 

The resulting research into these lawyers and departments highlighted the increasing prominence of lawyers and firms acting on contentious mandates on a provincial level. To capture this market segment, we decided to introduce new Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded tables for Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Québec. 

You can review these new tables at the links above. For more information on these tables, or to suggest new practice areas for Chambers Canada to research into, please email James Roberts 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.    

A specific initiative for the 2025 Canada Guide was a concerted attempt to make sure that the gender balance of lawyers interviewed was as close to 50/50 as possible. This was in an attempt to ensure that we avoid an echo chamber effect in our research and hopefully shine a light on individuals who may have been underrepresented in the research process in previous years.   

Across the research period, 44% of our call requests were with female lawyers, which ultimately resulted in 42% of eventual lawyer interviews being with female partners.  

Partly as a result of these efforts to speak to a range of individuals in the profession, 30% of the lawyers recognised in the 2025 Canada Guide are female, a 2% increase on last year's figures. 

Another focus of the Canada Guide for the 2025 release was 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 Awards 2024
The Chambers Canada team are delighted to share the shortlisted and winning legal talent at the Chambers Canada Awards 2024.

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.

Chambers Canada 2024 Research Schedule
The Chambers Canada team share an update and insight into the research schedule for the 2024 guide.

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.