Vancouver, BC – March 2026: MacLean Law, one of Canada’s premier family law firms, is proud to announce its distinction as a LEXPERT Ranked Leading Law Firm, reaffirming its position as one of the top-tier family law practices in Western Canada.
Founded in 1983 by Lorne MacLean, KC, the firm began as a boutique family law practice built upon MacLean’s passion, integrity, and client-focused advocacy. More than four decades later, MacLean Law has grown into one of the largest and most awarded family law and divorce teams in Canada, trusted by high and ultra high net worth individuals navigating complex divorce and separation matters.
With offices in Vancouver, Victoria, West Vancouver, Kelowna, Surrey and Calgary, MacLean Law continues to serve clients across British Columbia and Alberta with unmatched skill, sophistication, and strategic foresight.
Leadership and Landmark Results for High Net Worth Clients
MacLean Law’s success is built on decades of precedent-setting victories that have shaped Canadian family law. The firm’s lawyers have secured some of the largest support awards and cost judgments in Canadian legal history, including:
- A court-ordered combined child and spousal support award of $116,000 per month—one of the highest in the nation.
- An unequal division of a real estate development company in favour of the client—establishing a valuable precedent in business asset division.
- Record-breaking child and spousal support awards, multi-million-dollar cost awards, and successful enforcement of substantial penalties and fines.
- These achievements demonstrate the firm’s ability to protect and maximize outcomes for wealthy clients dealing with intricate financial structures, cross-border assets, complex taxation issues, and multi-jurisdictional disputes.
Canada’s Elite Family Law Team – Tel: 604 602 9000
MacLean Law’s lawyers are recognized for their depth of experience and results-oriented leadership. Senior counsel Lorne MacLean, KC, Nick Davies, Tal Wolf, Robert McQueen, Fraser MacLean and Jonathan Wai bring extensive senior counsel expertise and our intermediate lawyers Jesse Emmond, Sophie Bartholomew, Joty Sandhu, Gurdeep Khosa, Rana Yavari, and Chris Park have achieved advanced experience and successes on major and complex family law and divorce files. Our committed associates Kevin Zeng, Vanessa Lam and Ana Banus round out our leading tier 1 family law firm.
The firm is also proud to have one of the largest Mandarin, Cantonese, Chinese, and Punjabi-speaking international family law teams in Canada, reflecting its commitment to diversity and accessibility for clients with international or cross-cultural family matters.
Award-Winning Results and National Recognition
MacLean Law has been consistently recognized as a Top Choice Award winner for Best Family Law Firm in Vancouver and has recently earned the distinction of 2024 Canadian Family Law Firm of the Year and a 2025 Excellence Awardee.
MacLean Law has also been selected as a finalist in the Canadian Lawyer Top 10 Canadian Family Law Firms for 2026 and honoured as a finalist for 2026 Top Boutique Firm of The Year.
As author of the prestigious Chambers and Partners Family Law Guide Canada, our many awards can be attributed to PRECEDENT SETTING court wins in CHILD PARENTING, RECORD CHILD SUPPORT AND spousal support wins coupled with million dollar costs awards, and highest penalties and fines awarded to our clients. We have numerous international jurisdictional law wins and experience with complex tax disputes.
Lorne MacLean, KC, was named Top 25 Canadian Lawyer and Fraser MacLean was also named as a top 25 Canadian Lawyer by LEXPERT/Canadian Lawyer. Both are members of the invitation only Litigation Counsel of America and Lorne MacLean, KC has the coveted IAFL invitation only status as a top international family lawyer. Recently, Fraser MacLean was recognized in the 2026 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory as a Leading Lawyer to Watch in the area of Family Law in Canada.
The firm’s Tier 1 ranking as a Canadian Ultra High Net Worth Family Law Office underscores its elite status in representing affluent clients across the country.
Precision Strategy for High Net Worth Clients
Representing high and ultra high net worth individuals demands a carefully tailored approach. With significant wealth, corporate holdings, and unique income structures at stake, each case requires precise legal strategy from day one.
MacLean Law’s deep understanding of specialized legal principles governing property division, support calculation, and tax implications ensures that clients’ interests are protected with foresight, discretion, and strength, both in and out of court.
Lorne MacLean, KC – Tel: 604 602 9000
Lorne MacLean, KC, founder of MacLean Law, is widely recognized as one of Canada’s leading counsel in high-stakes, high-net-worth family and divorce litigation. He has built a reputation for strategic advocacy in some of the country’s most complex and financially significant cases.
Mr. MacLean regularly represents clients in matters involving international jurisdictional disputes, ultra high net worth (UHNW) spousal and child support claims, complex property division, parenting and guardianship litigation, and Hague International Child Abduction. His files frequently involve sophisticated corporate structures, trusts, cross-border asset tracing, and challenging income determination issues.
He has appeared twice before the Supreme Court of Canada, including in Young v. Young and Leskun v. Leskun, underscoring the national significance of the cases he has argued.
Over the course of his career, Mr. MacLean has achieved numerous precedent-setting results, including some of the highest child and spousal support awards in Canada for both men and women, multi-million-dollar property divisions, and record-setting Mareva injunctions and special costs awards.
