Jonathan Kahn

Jonathan is regularly recognized as a leading Canadian environmental lawyer in industry publications including:

• Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2020 (Band 1: Environment)

• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2019 (Band 1: Environment)

• Who's Who Legal Awards 2018 (Environmental Lawyer of the Year)

• Who's Who Legal: Environment (one of 15 "Most Highly Regarded Individuals" globally in the 2014 and 2015 editions)

• Who's Who Legal: Canada 2019

• The Legal 500 Canada 2020 (Environment)

• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2019 (Environment)

• Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders - Global Elite 2020

• Lexpert's Report on Business – Special Edition on Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers

• Lexpert's Report on Business – Special Edition on Canada's Leading Mining Lawyers

• Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Environment Lawyers 2018

• The Best Lawyers in Canada

Jonathan is an officer of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law, the first non-American to serve on that organization's Executive Committee. He became a member of that section's Governing Council in 2012 after serving as chair of several substantive committees. In 2011, he was the first non-American to chair the ABA's Annual Conference on Environmental Law.

Jonathan served as chair of the National Environment, Energy and Resources Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association in 2012-13. He is also a former chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association.

• Co-author: New Ontario Government to Restore Municipal Rights to Oppose Renewable Energy Projects
  Blakes Bulletin on Environmental Law, September 24, 2018.
• Co-authors: Ontario Court Overturns Quarry Licence Due to Government Failure to Adequately Consult First Nations
  Blakes Bulletin on Environment & Aboriginal, July 20, 2017.
• Co-authors: Cannabis, Commercial Real Estate and the Environment - Things to Consider Before You Get Into the Weeds
  Blakes Bulletin on Cannabis, June 15, 2017.

• Speaker: Cross Canada Hot Topics: Ontario Endangered Species Reform
  Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Summit, Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver, B.C., May 2-3, 2019.
• Speaker: The Changing Face of the Energy Market – A View from Across the Pond
  UK Environmental Law Association, London, U.K., May 9, 2018.
• Speaker: Natural Resources Exploitation: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
  61st Congress, Union Internationale des Avocats, Toronto, Ontario, October 27-31, 2017.
• Speaker: Water Regulation Developments in Ontario
  Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Summit, Canadian Bar Association, Montréal, Quebec, April 27-28, 2017.
• Chair: Environmental Summit of the Americas
  American Bar Association (co-sponsored program), Los Angeles, California, March 29-31, 2017.