
Lisa R. Lifshitz named among the leading practitioners in Canada in Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada 2025
Overview
We are pleased to announce that Lisa R. Lifshitz has once again been recognized as one of Canada's most frequently recommended Computer & IT Law practitioners, in the 2025 edition of Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada, a pre-eminent legal directory.
A trusted advisor to numerous stakeholders, Lisa specializes in the areas of information technology, privacy and cybersecurity law, and is the founder and Chair of the firm’s Technology and Privacy & Data Management Groups. Lisa has extensive expertise in preparing and negotiating a wide range of technology agreements, including Internet-related, m-commerce and e-commerce agreements, cloud computing agreements, mobile payment/fintech agreements, and complex reseller, distribution, system acquisition, development, and master services agreements. Lisa’s practice also includes the acquisition of artificial intelligence products/systems and blockchain technologies. She represents both vendors and users of technology and excels at negotiating large technology transactions and procurements. Lisa’s clients range from the private sector to the public sector, including federal/provincial governments. She also has an extensive cross-border practice, as well as considerable experience helping non-Canadian companies, especially American entities, enter and thrive in the Canadian marketplace.
To complement her practice, Lisa is a prolific writer and sought-after speaker on various topics related to privacy, cybersecurity and data management, and has been consistently recognized as an elite industry leader in technology, privacy and cybersecurity law.
As a testament of her excellence in legal counsel and client service, Lisa has earned numerous elite accolades and rankings by all of the preeminent legal directories as a leading lawyer in Canada and internationally. In addition to this accolade, The Best Lawyers in Canada© recently named Lisa as “Lawyer of the Year” in the area of Information Technology, as well as listing her in the areas of Information Technology Law, Privacy and Data Security Law and Technology Law. She was the sole recipient of the 2025 Client Choice Award and a 2025 Global Elite Thought Leader in the area of Data by Lexology Index. She was ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers Canada (Band 3) in the areas of Information Technology and Privacy & Data Protection (Band 4), and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as “Most Frequently Recommended” lawyer in Computer & IT Law, “Consistently Recommended” in Data Protection & Privacy and “Repeatedly Recommended” lawyer in Technology Transactions. Lisa was also listed as a Lexpert-ranked lawyer in the 2024 Lexpert Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Technology and Health Sciences Lawyers.
Published since 1997, Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada (formerly the Lexpert/ALM 500) is the most comprehensive guide to legal talent in Canada. The 2025 Lexpert 500 comprises the top-ranked lawyers in 33 practice areas and will have a robust distribution to leading law firms and in-house counsel across the US. These practice areas are selected from The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2025, which has a total of 68. It has become the resource of choice for American and Canadian in-house counsel and law firms in need of Canadian legal expertise. For more information, please visit the Lexpert website.
Congratulations to Lisa on this well-earned recognition as a leader in this area.