Jennifer Teskey is the Canadian national chair of the firm’s litigation and disputes practice as well as its Canadian financial institutions practice
Jennifer Teskey will be the first woman to become Canadian managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, the law firm announced Tuesday.
Primarily a litigator, Ms. Teskey has represented large banks, corporations and regulators in high-profile courtroom battles over the course of her career. She is the Canadian national chair of the firm’s litigation and disputes practice as well as its Canadian financial institutions practice. She has been a member of the Canadian management committee since 2018 and the firm’s global executive committee since 2021.
Despite recent efforts to increase gender diversity in Canadian law firms, it remains extremely rare for a woman to hold a senior executive position. According to the latest data from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, there were 49,175 women practising law in Canada in 2019 – the most recent year such data are available – compared with 56,678 men.
In 2018, the proportions of men and women at the associate level in Canadian law firms were roughly the same, according to Canadian Lawyer magazine. However, the Law Society of Ontario’s annual report from that same year found 12.4 per cent of lawyers in Ontario were partner-level men and only 4.3 per cent were partner-level women.
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