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McDougall Gauley LLP's Michael W. Milani, K.C. is hosting the Estey Symposium on Business Law on November 6, 2025. He is the current Estey Chair in Business Law at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. The Estey Symposium is a one-day event, bringing together legal scholars, practitioners, industry participants, and others to discuss...

Ellen Fitzgerald has published the column "Questions Surround Early Implementation of the Saskatchewan Marshalls Service" in The Saskatchewan Advocate, Fall 2025 edition. The Saskatchewan Advocate is a quarterly publication by the Saskatchewan Trial Lawyers Association ("STLA"). STLA is a non-profit legal association which supports justice through...

McDougall Gauley LLP's Lauren J. Wihak, K.C. has had her article entitled "Selecting Standards of Review on Statutory Appeals: A Major Change from Vavilov Garnering Minimal Attention but Having Significant Theoretical and Practical Implications" published in the latest issue of the Alberta Law Review. In her article, Lauren focuses on an aspect of...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce Michael Milani, K.C., Ian Sutherland, K.C., and Craig Frith have been recognized in Lexpert® Special Edition: Insolvency and Restructuring 2025. Lexpert Special Edition: Insolvency and Restructuring profiles the top-ranked Lexpert lawyers practicing in corporate restructuring and insolvencies and related...

McDougall Gauley LLP's Jacqueline Sirois participated in a new radio segment (Le droit de savoir) with Radio-Canada Saskatchewan. Jacqueline participated in the first radio interview for Le droit de savoir on September 24, 2025. Jacqueline will continue once a month with this segment, exploring new topics relevant to francophones in the province of...

The Best Lawyers in Canada™ 2026 Recognition McDougall Gauley LLP is pleased to announce the following lawyers have been recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada. Susan B. Barber, K.C. Administrative and Public Law Corporate and Commercial Litigation Labour and Employment Law Clayton Barry Construction Law Insolvency and...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce that G. Brett Ledingham has been recognized in Lexpert® Special Edition: Mining 2025. Lexpert Special Edition: Mining profiles the top-ranked Lexpert lawyers practicing in mining and related areas, and covers trends in the global mining sector. Brett maintains a specialized practice focusing on oil and gas...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce that Michael W. Milani, K.C. and G. Brett Ledingham has been recognized in Lexpert® Special Edition: Energy 2025. Lexpert Special Edition: Energy profiles the top-ranked Lexpert lawyers whose practices are relevant to the energy industry, and covers related trends and developments. Michael is a senior...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce that Jacqueline Sirois is joining the firm, effective August 5, 2025. Jacqueline maintains a practice focused on public, administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. She graduated from McGill University Faculty of Law in 2024 and was called to the bar in 2025. Jacqueline clerked with the Court of...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce that Michael W. Milani, K.C., has been appointed to a second term as the Estey Chair in Business Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, for a six-month term beginning July 1, 2025. The Estey Chair in Business Law was established in 2012 by John and Bill Estey to honour their father, the late...

McDougall Gauley LLP is proud to announce that Manahil Arshad is joining the firm, effective June 9, 2025. Manahil maintains a general practice focused on litigation, construction law and business law. She was called to the bar in 2025. Manahil achieved her Juris Doctor (2024) and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Chemistry (2021) through the...

McDougall Gauley is proud to announce two new lawyers to the firm. After articling with the firm, Tanner Secord and Dathan Thomas were called to the bar in May of 2025. Tanner Secord maintains a practice focused on the areas of labour and employment, corporate commercial law, and wills and estates. He achieved his Juris Doctor (2024) and a Bachelor...