For human rights, refugee, and immigration lawyer David Matas, advocating on behalf of dispossessed people around would seem a natural career path, given a family history that saw his ancestors escaping oppression in Imperial Russia to eventually find a new life in Canada.

Matas is among the many lawyers still working today who appeared in the very first edition of Lexpert’s Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, which is now celebrating its first quarter-century with a 25th-anniversary edition.