Introduction

• Author: C. Ian Kyer
• Pages: 1-12

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INTRODUCTION

O      Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP is a legal be

hemothwith overlawyers in sixocesac rossCanada andi nLondon

Paris and Johannesburg but it had a modest beginni ngI n it began

as a twoman rm in a si ngleha lffurnished room in TorontoThe legal

workof those founding partners was neitherh ighprole nor particularly

remunerative. They did debt collection and insolvency work for mortgage

lenders. They almost never appeared in court. One of the two was not even

qualiedasabarristerHowthendidthermtheyfoundedbecomeoneof

thestrongestlitigationpracticesin CanadaHowdidarmexpertinban k

ruptcy that served the legal needs of ban ks and insurance companies come

tobe rankedas the worldsleading mining lawrm It seems a stretch to

act for both bank presidents and hard rock mi ners, yet that is exactly what

happenedThemodernlegalpracticeoftheFaskensrmcanbe stbeunder

stoodandappreciatedbyastudyofitsrstyearsthecenturythattr uly

shaped it.

Originally known as Beay  Chadwick the rm passed th rough

twentyfournamech angesoverthe nextyearsand bywasknown

as FaskenC alvin MacKenzie Williston  Swackhamer In  the rm

adopted the name Fasken & Calvin, which it retained unch anged until its

mergerwit hCampbe llGodf reyLe wtason Novemberto createFas 

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kenMartineauDuMouli nLLPfollowingmergerswithQuebecsMartineau