Talk:Stikeman Elliott

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Perhaps you should stop nosing into other peoples business. If you edit my changes then I will consider that an invitation to rain down upon you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.71.165 (talk) 17:50, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Article Appears Written by the Firm

This article appears to have written predominantly by members of the law firm itself... Wikipedia is not an advertising forum... Stevenmitchell (talk) 14:35, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Some proposed changes

Information to be added or removed: ==Areas of practice==

• Agribusiness
• Aviation
• Banking & Finance
• Blockchain
• Capital Markets
• Cannabis
• Class Actions
• Communications
• Competition & Foreign Investment
• Construction
• Corporate Governance
• Crisis & Risk Management
• Employment & Labour
• Energy - Oil & Gas
• Energy - Power
• Environmental
• Financial Products & Services
• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Forestry & Forest Products
• Hospitality
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• International Regulation & Compliance
• International Trade
• Investment Funds & Asset Management
• Life Sciences & Healthcare
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Manufacturing & Distribution
• Maritime & Shipping
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mining
• Municipal & Land Use
• Outsourcing
• Pensions & Benefits
• Privacy & Data Protection
• Private Equity
• Project Development & Finance
• Real Estate
• REITs
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Retail
• Securities
• Tax
• Technology
• Translation
• Transportation & Logistics
• Waste Management

Explanation of issue: Outlines the areas of law that Stikeman Elliott as a firm practices. References supporting change: https://stikeman.com/en-ca/expertise

I am requesting to change content on this page, and disclose that I currently have a working relationship for the company Stikeman Elliott within the Marketing department. The purposed changes reflect the firm's business model and overall scope of work. If a consensus that this information is accurate, please include on Stikeman Elliott article page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strachanm (talk • contribs) 17:29, 22 October 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 18:14, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Clarification:

The post above was first added by Strachanm and then later modified by the IP address 198.168.230.6, so both unsigned signatures have been applied here with their correct timestamps.  Spintendo  01:10, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Reply 22-OCT-2018

  Edit request declined  

• Simple lists without context are not advised, per MOS:EMBED.

Regards,  Spintendo  20:07, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

References

Reply 22-OCT-2018

In a previous version, this list was accepted and published. Requesting for published 16:10, 18 October 2018 to be reinstated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 20:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Change to text first paragraph

Information to be edited in first paragraph: Stikeman Elliott LLP is a leading Canadian business law firm with offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. It is known as one of Bay Street's "seven sisters" and has approximately 500 lawyers. It was founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott.

Explanation of issue: Better defines the firm's law practice of Canadian law. Also links to all active offices that practice law. Better defines where 'Seven sister' law firms practice. References supporting change: https://stikeman.com/en-ca/firm/history

I am requesting to change content on this page, and disclose that I currently have a working relationship for the company Stikeman Elliott within the Marketing department. The purposed changes reflect the firm's business model and overall scope of work. If a consensus that this information is accurate, please include on Stikeman Elliott article page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 20:32, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

References

Hello and thank you for using edit requests. Reading the Seven Sisters (law firms) article it does indeed use the words "leading" so I think that is okay now. We do not need a link to your website and all the offices they have in the first line. May I suggest some changes to the wording such as "Stikeman Elliott LLP is a leading Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott. They are best known as one of Bay Street's "seven sisters" and have international offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney." I am also going to ask you to remain consistent with the accounts you use. Please either use this IP or the created account but do not switch between both as it makes things confusing. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you HickoryOughtShirt?4 for your help and suggestions. I will use this IP for future updates from my end. I will proceed with creating a new version with this approved language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 18:33, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

The reference for the sisters claim was a dead URL, so that information (and the term "leading") was omitted. The source citations which were duplicates were consolidated under one entry in the references. This revealed that the article is sourced by only one reference. Thus, the one source maintenance template was appended to the article.  Spintendo  11:17, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

 Spintendo  - Stikeman Elliott is strongly recognized as one of the Seven Sister law firms that reside on Bay Street (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(law_firms)). Requesting that first paragraph be ammended to include this information below:

Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott.[1] The firm is recognized as one of Bay Street's "seven sisters" and has offices located in Montréal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. Also, I would like to request that the following be added as cited by (http://precedentjd.com/news/whats-going-stikeman-elliott/) under the 'Career Programs' section that was recently removed:

Stikeman Elliott offers a summer student program and a law articling student program.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 16:59, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

It's questionable whether the term is anything more than a historical footnote. The source Chambers Global 2014 rankings themselves confirm that "it’s time to retire the term 'seven sisters'" while the originator of the term himself said that the term had "run its course". The main Legal Week source in the 7 sisters Wikipedia article is a dead link (and a search of their website turns up nothing as far as I can tell). If anything, it doesnt appear to be something that needs to be in the lead. As far as promotion of Stikeman's summer student programs, this type of information is best stored on Stikeman's own website. A link to this website is provided in the Wikipedia article.  Spintendo  19:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

If we refer to other law firms' articles on Wikipedia that have historically been referred to as a "seven sister" law firms, they have it presently noted, several without reference. Examples include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osler,_Hoskin_%26_Harcourt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake,_Cassels_%26_Graydon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_T%C3%A9trault, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davies_Ward_Phillips_%26_Vineberg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodmans, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torys. Please review.

The careers section was prominently available on the Stikeman Elliott article page, and with the new reference this should be acceptable.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.168.230.6 (talk) 14:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Reply 30-OCT-2018

  Edit request partially implemented  

1. Y I have included the reference to seven sisters in the main body of text.
2. N Wikipedia is WP:NOTLINKEDIN, and thus a career section would not be appropriate.
3. All posts need to be signed by the editor who posts them with four tildes. Please remember to sign your posts.

Regards,  Spintendo  19:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Update: number of lawyers, revenue

• I am requesting to change content on this page, and disclose that I currently have a working relationship for the company Stikeman Elliott within the Marketing department. The changes are an update of the firm's number of attorneys and revenue. If a consensus that this information is accurate, please include on the Stikeman Elliott article page.

What I think should be changed: In the info box, change "No. of attorneys 470 (2017)" to "No. of attorneys 485 (2022)" and "Revenue USD 300,815,000 (2017)" to "Revenue USD 352,631,666 (2022)."

• Why it should be changed: The information currently on the page dates from 2017. Updating these numbers will ensure that the information provided is current and reliable for Wikipedia users.

• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

SE digital (talk) 18:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC) SE digital (talk) 18:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

@SE digital, Please disclose your paid editing in the future requests. Anyways, Done. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 03:36, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

References

Editing first paragraph of article

Hi,

I'm the marketing communications coordinator at Stikeman Elliott LLP, working out of the Toronto office. We need to change the first paragraph of this page to remove "Sydney" from our list of offices, as it has closed.

We would be changing the page from:

Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott. The firm has offices located in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. Since 2021, the firm's chairman is Jeffrey Singer.

To this:

Stikeman Elliott LLP is a Canadian business law firm founded in 1952 by H. Heward Stikeman and Fraser Elliott. The firm has offices located in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York and London. Since 2021, the firm's chairman is Jeffrey Singer.

Here is my LinkedIn profile verifying my employment with Stikeman Elliott - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaylenefinlay/

This page (https://www.stikeman.com/en-ca/firm/firm/history) and this page (https://www.stikeman.com/en-ca/firm/news/quentin-markin-co-head-of-global-mining-group-relocates-to-sydney-office) confirms that we've previously had a Sydney office

If you look under the Offices tab on the site, Sydney is no longer listed.

Please let me know if there's anything else you need.

Jaylene Finlay

Jaylene Finlay (talk) 19:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

 Done. I have also removed an amount of unsourced material from the article and a 'verification required' tag which had been attached to the article for some years. Regards, Axad12 (talk) 21:06, 8 November 2024 (UTC)