City monitor · November 2026
Calgary: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Calgary over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, in which practices and with which firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 57
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +20.0%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 31.6%
- Partner share of moves
What the data show
In the Sartori & Partners lateral record, 57 lawyers joined a new firm in Calgary from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.4% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 50 to 60 (+20.0%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.
With partners at 31.6% of arrivals, the mix is in line with the market's 27.7%.
- Partner31.6%
- Associate64.9%
The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 82.5% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. McCarthy Tétrault ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 11-20 band.
By practice, Litigation & Disputes comes first, involved in 42.1% of arrivals here (39.9% across the market).
For a firm planning a hire in Calgary, a flat market means candidates are not being pulled by a wave: the case for a move has to come from the platform.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCarthy Tétrault | 11-20 |
| 2 | Fasken Martineau DuMoulin | 6-10 |
| 3 | Blake Cassels & Graydon | 6-10 |
| 4 | Osler Hoskin & Harcourt | 3-5 |
| 5 | Torys | 3-5 |
| 6 | Dentons | 3-5 |
| 7 | Stikeman Elliott | 3-5 |
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCarthy Tétrault | 6-10 |
| 2 | Dentons | 3-5 |
Related monitors and reports
Practices in Calgary
- Litigation & Disputes24 moves
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Hiring in this market
Reports
- Calgary Partner Market 2026: A Far Larger Mid-Size Share Than Toronto
Firms of 400-999 lawyers took 60.0% of Calgary lateral moves over 12 months, against 41.2% in Toronto and 23.4% across the market. Hiring sits with a short list of firms, and volume was flat year on year.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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