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150 year Anniversary
Miller Thomson Waterloo office celebrates 150th anniversary
WATERLOO – The Waterloo office of Miller Thomson LLP is celebrating its sesquicentennial – marking 150 years of serving the legal needs in its community.
Founded in 1858 by Ward Hamilton Bowlby, Sims Clement Eastman which merged with Miller Thomson was one of the oldest law offices in Ontario. Starting as W.H. Bowlby, Barrister & Solicitors, a new partnership in 1876 saw the firm grow to three partners: Bowlby, Edwin Perry Clement and Frederick Colquhoun. In fact, the Clement family name remained with the firm until 2002 – when it partnered with Miller Thomson LLP.
Miller Thomson’s Waterloo office has 35 lawyers supported by 78 administrative and professional staff working at its office located in The Accelerator Building at the University of Waterloo Research Park.
“We have been a part of the Southwestern Ontario landscape for 150 years, and our practice is as diverse as the enterprises that make this Region great. We’ve gained a wealth of national resources and expertise but we’ve always maintained a focus on the communities in our back yard,” said Ric Trafford, Miller Thomson Managing Partner, Southwestern Ontario, for the Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and London offices.
With more than 60 lawyers in its southwestern Ontario offices, Miller Thomson services clients in virtually all sectors of the economy in all aspects of law, including: information and communication technology; bio-technology; agribusiness; manufacturing; real estate; construction; financial and health services; retail; hospitality; tourism; and insurance.
Working from its University of Waterloo Research and Technology Park location, the firm services the burgeoning technology sector with its MTech program – a one-of-a-kind technology program addressing the needs of emerging tech, agribusiness and biopharma companies. MTech provides these companies with comprehensive, pre-set legal services to protect intellectual property portfolios.
Miller Thomson LLP, established in 1957, is one of Canada’s premier full-service national law firms, with more than 430 lawyers working in offices located in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Markham and Montreal. The firm provides business law, advocacy and personal legal services to Canadian and international corporations, entrepreneurs, institutions, governments, individuals, charities and not-for-profit corporations.
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