Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP wins DealMakers Country Awards 2011.

The DealMakers Country Awards 2011 recognizes a select number of leading professional firms, across the globe, for their individual areas of specialization within their geographical location.

Editors from DealMakers Monthly Magazine polled over 80,000 of their readers and honoured firms that performed to exceptional levels.

Dealmakers Monthly Magazine is an established global Deal reporting publication. It has an audience of private and public companies, many of them listed on stock exchanges across the world as well as the top law firms, private equity companies, investment officers, financiers and entrepreneurs.

PLC Cross-border Environment

PLC Cross-border Environment multi-jurisdictional guide 2011-2012 endorses Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP. The Environment multi-jurisdictional guide is the leading resource on environment law and lawyers around the world and is used by in-house counsel and referring law firms requiring advice in unfamiliar jurisdictions.

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP wins Lawyers World Law Award Winner 2011 - Environmental Law Firm of the Year

Lawyers World Magazine is an established global corporate law reporting publication reaching out to a variety of readers including corporate executives, in-house counsel, bankers and financiers, private equity and institutional investors, and other legal and financial experts involved in corporate law and finance matters. The magazine’s annual Lawyers World Law Awards recognize a select number of leading professional firms across the globe for their exceptional performance in their areas of specialization and geographical regions.

InterContinental Finance Magazine

The InterContinental Finance Magazine, along with members of their readership, lists Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP as one of their Top Tier advisors.

ICFM is a well respected global financial publication, covering all aspects of transactional activity.

Willms & Shier Partners named to Who's Who Legal: Canada and Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Environment Lawyers (2010 and 2011).

Congratulations to partners John Willms, Donna Shier and Marc McAree, who are included in the list of the world's leading Environment lawyers.

Since 1996, Who's Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in 31 areas of business law. Nominees have been selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with thousands of corporate counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.

Chambers & Partners names Willms & Shier one of the “Best of Canada” in Environmental Law.

The results, published in Chambers Global 2011 directory resource, are based on months of in-depth research of legal markets of over 180 countries by U.K.-based legal publisher Chambers & Partners. Chambers says it assesses technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by the client. Firms and individuals must be recommended to merit inclusion.

The Financial Post is the exclusive media partner with Chambers for the unveiling of the 2011 edition.

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John Willms, Donna Shier and Marc McAree have been selected by their peers to be included in the annual editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the specialty of Environmental Law.

Congratulations to Juli Abouchar, who has been selected for the 2012 Best Lawyers in Canada in Energy Regulatory Law.

Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is based on a peer-review survey, including thousands of telephone interviews with leading lawyers. Because no fee or purchase is required to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honour. The President of Best Lawyers says “Best Lawyers is the most highly respected and widely used referral guide to the legal profession worldwide.” Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

John Willms and Donna Shier are rated Repeatedly Recommended and Marc McAree is rated Consistently Recommended in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

"Selection in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory is your validation that these lawyers are leaders in their practice areas according to our annual peer surveys." Jean Cumming (Lexpert, Editor-in-Chief)

Willms & Shier has been voted the "Law Firm of the Year - Environment" in the InterContinental Finance Magazine's Legal Excellence Awards 2011.

More than 15,500 readers responded to the magazine's annual poll, selecting firms that "continually punch above their weight" and are the most capable within their field. In making the award, the editors noted that Willms & Shier has "performed to exceptional levels during one of the most difficult economic periods ever experienced." The readership of InterContinental Finance Magazine includes CEOs, CFOs, corporate bankers, directors of equity firms, in-house legal counsel, and partners and associates from law firms around the world.

Donna Shier voted one of the World's Leading Women in Business Law by Expert Guides 2010

The 2010 Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law is the international legal market's leading guide to the top female legal practitioners. When first published in 1994, the Expert Guides were the first-ever guides dedicated to leading individuals in the legal industry.

The guides are updated every two years and continue to focus on individuals considered by clients and peers to be the best in their field.

The Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May 2010, names Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP one of the top 5 boutique environmental law firms in the country. "This Toronto firm has spent over 30 years helping companies and municipalities manage environmental law issues. Over that period, partners Donna Shier and John Willms have developed reputations as two of Canada’s foremost counsel in the specialty area, and their firm now consists of a stable of 12 lawyers. Most of the boutique’s clients are from the private sector, with the bulk of those matters involving issues with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Brownfields and contaminated lands work also helps keep Willms & Shier one of the country’s busiest environmental law boutiques."

Willms & Shier is a proud member of ONEIA - Ontario Environment Industry Association.

Contributor With Most Reader Response In Canada

During the Month of May 2009 Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP (Canada) generated the most usage from our users for this category.

At the end of every month, for each country, Mondaq analyses which articles elicited the most reader response from our registered business readers: 'The Most Reader Response'. Reader response is based on readers who have emailed the contributor as a result of reading the article, gone from the article to the contributor's website or address details, or provided a qualitative ranking for the article as to how useful they found it. The reader may have come upon the article either on the Mondaq site, www.mondaq.com, via our personalised newsletters, or via one of our feeds to 3rd party sites. All readership for this article consists of real, identified individuals and no anonymous readers are included in the conferral of this award. Whilst Mondaq also distributes the same articles through major business systems like Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, and Reuters we cannot track readership of articles through these systems and they therefore do not figure in the presentation of the award. Finally, 'country' is determined by the categorization of the article not the contributor e.g. if a US firm writes an article on an aspect of French commercial law the article is automatically eligible for the French award.