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| Headquarters | Calgary and Toronto |
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| No. of offices | 7 |
| No. of attorneys | 500 |
| No. of employees | 550 |
| Major practice areas | Energy, Mining, Funds & Finance, Capital Projects |
| Date founded | 1922 (Calgary) |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www.bennettjones.com |
Bennett Jones LLP is a law firm based in Canada.
For over a century, Bennett Jones has been an internationally recognized Canadian law firm.
Bennett Jones is home to more than 500 lawyers and business advisors in seven offices—Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and New York. The firm advises clients in virtually every sector of business, industry and government.
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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. [1]
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. [10]
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