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!

View Roper Greyell’s Best Law Firms in Canada Profile

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.

Roper Greyell LLP has once again received the esteemed status of a top-ranked, Band 1 firm for Employment and Labour law in British Columbia and a Band 2 Employment and Labour law firm in the Nationwide rankings, in the 2025 Chambers Canada Guide.

In addition to the firm’s notable recognition, Chambers Canada has also recognized and ranked the following nine Roper Greyell lawyers:

Thomas A. Roper K.C.

Delayne Sartison K.C.

Gregory J. Heywood

Gabrielle Scorer

Graeme McFarlane

Sandra Guarascio

James D. Kondopulos

Jenny Devins

Ryan Copeland

 

Congratulations to all 9 lawyers and especially Graeme, Sandra, and Ryan for newly joining this esteemed list.

What clients are saying:

“Roper Greyell is always our go-to firm. Simply put, they are a great firm with great lawyers, who consistently deliver great results. They exceed the bar regardless of which measurement is applied.”

“Roper Greyell have terrific bench strength. Their lawyers are skilled practitioners, specialists in their area of the law and exhibit incredible talent.”

About Chambers Canada

Chambers Canada differentiates the best legal talent across a range of provincial, national and international law firms based across the country, to assist those looking for the most suitable providers of legal services for when it matters.

Each ranking is based on the Chambers ranking system which is established from the most in-depth market analysis and comprehensive independent research, that is unrivalled in accuracy, depth and quality and carried out by our experienced team of London-based researchers.

Read more about Chambers Canada here.

View Roper Greyell’s 2025 Chambers Canada Profile.

In the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada™, 17 Roper Greyell lawyers were recognized for their excellence in a variety of areas including: Labour & Employment, Workers’ Compensation Law, Education Law, Administrative and Public Law, and Privacy and Data Security Law. Another 4 of our lawyers were recognized as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™.

The lawyers recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada™ 2025 Edition are:

Labour & Employment

Thomas Roper K.C.

Delayne Sartison K.C.

Gregory Heywood

Gabrielle Scorer

Gavin Marshall

Sandra Guarascio

James Kondopulos

Jennifer Russell

Jennifer Devins

Michael Kilgallin

Maggie Campbell

Alissa Demerse

Mike Hamata

Danny Bernstein

Paige Ainslie

Danielle Scorda

Workers’ Compensation Law

Gavin Marshall

Alissa Demerse

Education Law (representing educational institutions)

Delayne M. Sartison, K.C.

Jennifer Russell

Jennifer Devins

Administrative and Public Law

Thomas A. Roper, K.C.

Gavin Marshall

Jennifer Devins

Privacy and Data Security Law

Jordan Michaux

The lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ 2025 Edition are:

Katie Comley

Jaime Hoopes

Andrew Nicholl

Sabrina Anis

About Best Lawyers:

The Best Lawyers in Canada™ has been providing comprehensive coverage of top legal talents in Canada and around the world for over 30 years. Lawyers on the list are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise. Additional recognitions are also awarded to individual lawyers with the highest overall feedback from their peers for a specific practice area and geographic region.

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ recognizes talented up-and-coming lawyers in Canada. The methodology for Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ is the same as that of The Best Lawyers in Canada™, dependent entirely on a nomination and peer-review process. To be eligible for Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™, lawyers must be in private practice and have a tenure of three to eight years.

View Roper Greyell’s The Best Lawyers in Canada™ Profile.