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Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963
2013 by C. Ian Kyer, Lawyer and Historian, published with Irwin Law, 2013.
Ian Kyer holds a Ph.D. in history and was for many years a partner at Fasken Martineau. He has combined his historical and legal expertise to produce a comprehensive account of the first century of Faskens. He takes us through crucial stages in the development of not just this but many other Canadian law firms – alliances with business, the growth of two or three man partnerships into considerably larger firms, and the links between leading firms and politics. Along the way we see how law practice changed, how remuneration was divided up, how strong leaders stamped their individual personalities on the collective identity of the firm. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the seismic changes in Canadian law practice.
Contents
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ix
PREFACE
xi
INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER 1
Two Marriages That Made a Law Firm:
1862-75
13
CHAPTER 2
Politics and Family Ties,
1876-80
47
CHAPTER 3
Challenges Overcome,
1881-89
63
CHAPTER 4
Beatty Blackstock,
1890-1906
89
CHAPTER 5
A New Direction,
1906-18
123
CHAPTER 6
Minders, Grinders, and Roberson,
1919-38
159
CHAPTER 7
Pickup and Calvin,
1939-52
199
CHAPTER 8
A New Beginning,
1953-63
221
EPILOGUE
A Multitude of Changes but …
143
A NOTE ON SOURCES
251
APPENDIX 1
Firm Chronology
1863-2012
255
APPENDIX 2
Brief Histories of Campbell Godfrey & Lewtas, Martineau Walker, and Russell & DuMoulin
259
NOTES
267
INDEX
311
Reviews
Lawyers, judges, historians and countless individuals vitally interested in matters historical … will rejoice at the publication of yet another full length monograph on the subject of the creation and development of a leading law firm. Lawyers, Families and Businesses recounts in great detail a century of lawyering, not only of … Fasken’s, but of the city of Toronto. Gilles Renaud, Deakin Law Review, vol 19, 2014, p. 187.
