THE LEGAL 500 CANADA SUBMISSION PROCESS
The deadline for submissions for the 2026 edition is 24 June 2025.
Research dates: 28 June – 29 August 2025
The template documents you will need to send submissions are below:
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Researchers
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Practice areas
Practice areas we are researching for the Canada 2026 edition include:
- AI
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Construction
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
Separate submissions are strongly recommended for each province - Energy and natural resources: Mining
- Energy and natural resources: Oil and gas
- Energy and natural resources: Power
- Environment
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Media and entertainment
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Sports law NEW
- Tax
- Technology
- Telecoms
- Transport: Aviation
- Transport: Other
- Transport: Shipping