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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812464203321

Autore

Wilton Carol

Titolo

Essays on the history of Canadian law . Volume II : Inside the law : Canadian law firms in historical perspective / / edited by Carol Wilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-4426-5128-8

1-4426-3291-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (621 p.)

Collana

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Disciplina

340.1120971

Soggetti

Law - Canada - History

History

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Inside the Law -- Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective -- 2 The Making of a Colonial Lawyer: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax, 1822-1842 -- 3 Aemilius Irving: Solicitor to the Great Western Railway, 1855-1872 -- 4 The Campbell, Meredith Firm of Montreal: A Case-Study of the Role of Canadian Business Lawyers, 1895-1913 -- 5 The Transformation of an Establishment Firm: From Beatty Blackstock to Faskens, 1902-1915 -- 6 Élite Relationships, Partnership Arrangements, and Nepotism at Blakes, a Toronto Law Firm, 1858-1942 -- 7 The George F. Downes Firm in the Development of Edmonton and Its Region, 1903-1930 -- 8 Corporate Entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canada: The Stewart Law Firm, 1915-1955 -- 9 Goodall and Cairns: Commercial, Corporate, and Energy Law in Alberta, 1920-1942 -- 10 A Family Firm in Transition: Osier, Hoskin & Harcourt in the 1950s and 1960s -- 11 Dominant Professionals: The Role of Large-Firm Lawyers in Manitoba -- 12 Raymond and Honsberger: A Small Firm That Stayed Small, 1889-1989 -- 13 'A Small United Nations': The



Hamilton Firm of Millar, Alexander, Tokiwa, and Isaacs, 1962-1993 -- 14 Law on the Pacific Coast: Bull, Housser and Tupper, 1945-1990 -- 15 Hierarchy in Practice: The Significance of Gender in Ontario Law Firms -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Publications of The Osgoode Society.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays, Volume VII in the Osgoode Society's series of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, is the first focused study of a variety of law firms and how they have evolved over a century and a half, from the golden age of the sole practitioner in the pre-industrial era to the recent rise of the mega-firm.