I remember going to the offices of Heenan Blaikie in 2001, when I was an associate at another Bay Street law firm in Toronto. Heenan’s offices were not like those dour, wood-panelled offices of other law firms. They were bright, light filled—different because Heenan tried to be different. For four decades, the firm attracted a marquee list of counsel including former prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean…
Adam Dodek
Adam Dodek is a law professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and the vice-president of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. He is researching the rise and fall of Heenan Blaikie as a case study about changes in the Canadian legal profession over the past forty years.