Roper Greyell is delighted to announce that it has been recognized as an Excellence Awardee for ‘Best Labour and Employment Law Firm’ at the 2025 Canadian HR Awards in partnership with HRD Canada and Canadian HR Reporter magazine.
This prestigious honour reflects the firm’s ongoing pursuit of excellence and unwavering dedication to surpassing expectations in our commitment to delivering superior legal services.
Thomas A. Roper, K.C. has been recognized once again as one of British Columbia’s most influential business leaders in the 2025 edition of Business in Vancouver’s BC500 publication.
BIV’s BC500 features business leaders who have a notable impact on B.C.’s communities, industries and economy. They are visionaries, innovators and trailblazers. They embody the values of modern leadership: engagement, trust, corporate citizenship, inclusion and innovation.
Tom’s inclusion in the 2025 edition acknowledges his tireless advocacy, contributions to, and influence on employment and labour law over the past five decades.
Congratulations, Tom!
Roper Greyell is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked #16 in Business in Vancouver’s list of the 20 Biggest Law Firms in Metro Vancouver.
This ranking amongst full-service firms is significant as Roper Greyell is a specialty boutique firm focused on workplace law, and this recognition acknowledges the firm’s strong growth and stature as one of Canada’s preeminent specialty boutique law firms.
About BIV’s Biggest Law Firms in Metro Vancouver list:
Business in Vancouver’s list of the Biggest Law Firms in Metro Vancouver highlights the firms with the largest teams in the greater Vancouver area.
Roper Greyell is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a Top Labour and Employment Law Firm in Canada for 2025 by HR Law Canada. This recognition is part of a special editorial project recognizing the nation’s top legal talent that have defined excellence in labour and employment law in 2025. The awards reflect not just achievement, but the lasting impact of legal leadership across Canada’s workplaces.
Roper Greyell’s selection for this award is based on numerous criteria, including the volume of accolades, rankings and recent recognitions; significant and continued growth in firm size, clients, and matters; as well as the firm’s overall contributions to the field of workplace law in Canada.
Read the firm’s feature article in HR Law Canada here: https://hrlawcanada.com/2025/04/roper-greyell-named-a-top-labour-and-employment-law-firm-in-canada-for-2025/
Roper Greyell is delighted to announce that it has once again been recognized as an Excellence Awardee in the category of ‘Boutique Law Firm of the Year’ at the annual Canadian Law Awards in partnership with LEAP Legal Software, presented by Lexpert and supported by Canadian Lawyer magazine.
This prestigious honour reflects the firm’s ongoing pursuit of excellence and unwavering dedication to surpassing expectations in our commitment to delivering superior legal services.
Roper Greyell is pleased to announce that twelve RG lawyers have been included in the 2025 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
The firm continues to have a strong showing in the Lexpert directory. Our listed lawyers have been recognized as some of the leading legal practitioners across Canada based on an extensive peer survey process for 2025. They have been honoured as leading employment, labour, workplace human rights, occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation law practitioners.
The following Roper Greyell lawyers have been honored in the 2025 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory:
– Thomas A. Roper K.C.
– Delayne Sartison K.C.
– Gregory J. Heywood
– Gabrielle Scorer
– Gavin Marshall
– Sandra Guarascio
– James D. Kondopulos
– Jennifer Devins
– Danny Bernstein
– Maggie Campbell
– Alissa Demerse
– Ryan Copeland
Their inclusion in this respected directory reflects their unwavering commitment to excellence and their contributions to the legal landscape across Canada.
The Directory can be viewed here.
About Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory:
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (the Canadian Lexpert Directory), published since 1997, is based on an extensive peer survey process. It includes profiles of leading practitioners across Canada in 66 practice areas and leading law firms in 41 practice areas.
The publication also features articles highlighting current legal issues and recent developments of importance written by leading practitioners across Canada.
Congratulations to Roper Greyell’s James Kondopulos for winning the 2025 Client Choice Award for Labour & Employment – Canada: British Columbia, presented by Lexology. James is the only BC-based labour and employment lawyer to receive the award this year – this marks the second time that James has won this award (previously in 2022).
The Client Choice Awards recognize lawyers from around the world that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service.
See the full list of 2025 Client Choice Award winners in the Labour & Employment category here.
About Client Choice
Established in 2005, Client Choice recognizes those law firms and partners around the world that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service. The criteria for this recognition focus on an ability to add real value to clients’ business above and beyond the other players in the market. Uniquely, lawyers can only be nominated by their clients.
We are very pleased to announce that seven Roper Greyell lawyers have been recognized in the 2024 edition of Who’s Who Legal Canada (hosted by Lexology).
The lawyers named in this year’s Who’s Who Legal Canada are:
Thomas A. Roper K.C.
Delayne Sartison K.C.
Gregory J. Heywood
Gabrielle Scorer
Gavin Marshall
Sandra Guarascio
James D. Kondopulos
About Who’s Who Legal (WWL): WWL is now hosted by Lexology and is the intelligence global legal research platform used by in-house counsel and legal professionals searching for the right expert to solve specific problems. Lexology has more than 890,000 registered users globally and over 2 million searches are carried out annually.
Roper Greyell is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized by Best Lawyers as a Best Law Firm in Canada (2025 edition).
We are proud to report that we’ve been recognized for the practice areas and jurisdictions noted below:
National Tier 1: Labour and Employment Law; Workers’ Compensation Law.
National Tier 3: Administrative and Public Law.
Metropolitan Tier 1 – Vancouver: Administrative and Public Law; Education Law; Labour and Employment Law; Workers’ Compensation Law.
Metropolitan Tier 2 – Vancouver: Privacy and Data Security Law.
The Best Law Firms – Canada rankings are the result of thorough research, incorporating the feedback of almost 2,200 clients, more than 4,600 lawyers, 206 interviews with practice group and firm leaders, and comprehensive data collected through the Best Lawyers “Law Firm Survey.”
It is an honour to be included on this prestigious list. Congratulations to the whole team for making this ranking possible!
We are thrilled to announce that Roper Greyell has once again been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Law Firms for 2025 by The Globe and Mail and Statista.
We ranked as the #1 firm for Human Rights in all of Canada and were amongst the top 20 law firms recognized across all practice areas.
The Globe and Mail and Statista’s list of best law firms is curated from thousands of recommendations (peer-to-peer survey) and clients (corporate legal departments) across 31 different practice areas. Only 200 firms across Canada have been recognized in this prestigious list based on the number of recommendations received.
Roper Greyell was honoured to receive this recognition in person at Canada’s Best Law Firms Awards Presentation on October 21 in Toronto. Roper Greyell lawyers Graeme McFarlane and Jennifer Hogan accepted the award on behalf of the firm.
