Ogletree Deakins Expands To Canada

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. has announced that the firm is entering the Canadian market with a Toronto office led by a group of prominent lawyers from a large Canadian law firm. The Toronto office, which is Ogletree Deakins’ 49th, expands the firm’s international platform that now includes offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico. Hugh Christie, who will serve as the managing partner of Ogletree Deakins’ Toronto office, has practiced labor and employment law in Canada for more than three decades and is the former chair of the national employment and labor practice group at his former firm.