Our Expertise
Our administrative law team is recognized for its experience and for the scope of its interventions in all areas of this practice. Our lawyers represent various professional orders, universities, health organizations and police forces.
- Access to information and protection of personal information
- Contracting by public bodies
- Judicial review of government actions
- Public and constitutional law
- Public freedoms and human rights
- Economic development corporations
Our lawyers advise and assist public bodies and private companies in their organizational and development decisions, including with respect to incorporation, maintaining minute books, managing conflicts between shareholders, enforcing security, settling commercial disputes, and in the context of commercial or real estate transactions. They are supported by a team of experienced paralegals.
- Commercial bankruptcy and insolvency
- Debt financing and banking
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Commercial litigation
- Security enforcement
- Commercial arbitration
- Commercial mediation
We offer specialized family and estate law services that meet all of litigants’ needs. Our services include settling particularly complex issues involving matrimonial regimes, trusts and sophisticated corporate structures.
- Family law
- Law of persons
- Law of wills
- Estate litigation
Our lawyers are excellent litigators. They act for many public and private clients in various disputes and conflict resolution processes both in and out of court. They have particular expertise with insurance contracts, regularly representing various insurers and drafting contracts, policies or notices relating to insurance coverage. The team also has extensive experience in civil liability and defending our clients’ insured.
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Insurance coverage
- Banking litigation
- Insurance law
- Construction law
- Civil litigation
- Commercial litigation
- Shareholder disputes
- Mediation
- Subrogation claims
- Debt recovery
- Contractual liability
- Extracontractual liability
- Manufacturer’s liability
- Municipal liability
- Professional liability and disciplinary law
- Arbitration service
- Mediation service
Our labour law team consists of renowned lawyers supported by outstanding young talent. It has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting collective agreements and in grievance arbitration. Our lawyers appear before courts and administrative tribunals in the context of labour relations disputes
- Dispute resolution, litigation, mediation or arbitration
- Dismissal and disciplinary measures
- Development and implementation of workplace policies
- Individual employment contracts and labour standards
- Judicial review of labour tribunal decisions
- Human rights and freedoms and discrimination
- Employment contracts and agreements
- Pay equity
- Job evaluation
- Employment injuries (Indemnities and financing)
- Certification disputes
- Negotiation of collective agreements
- Prevention in Occupational Health and Safety
- Remuneration, pension plans and other employee benefits
- Unionization, certification, or disputes related to union actions and labor conflicts
With more than fifty years of municipal law experience, our team is a strategic ally and reliable reference for the municipal sector. Both as prosecutors for municipalities, RCMs or other parapublic organizations and as facilitators, trainers or speakers, our lawyers leverage their in-depth knowledge to support municipal governance. Their expertise also extends to urban planning, municipal taxation and expropriation.
- Urban planning and development
- Contracting by municipal bodies
- Judicial review of municipal bodies
- Municipal courts and penal law
- Other fields of law affecting municipal bodies
- The law and Aboriginal-titled territories and Aboriginal governance
- Municipal ethics and professional conduct
- Environment
- Property assessment
- Expropriation
- Municipal taxation
- Municipal organization and procedures
- Private public partnerships
- Protection of agricultural land
- Municipal bylaws
- Municipal liability and disguised expropriation
- Municipal liability
Our administrative law practitioners have acquired extensive experience in real estate law over the years in their capacity as consultants on the drafting of various pieces of legislation applicable in Quebec and various by-laws of many of the province’s municipalities. These legal professionals have developed refined expertise in their field of practice thus ensuring that client projects will be carried out in compliance with such legislation and by-laws.
Acting on behalf of government authorities, our lawyers are fully qualified to give them legal advice, negotiate on their behalf, represent them before the courts and draft agreements and contracts that secure and safeguard their interests in matters involving:
- emphyteutic leases
- property valuation
- title examination
- expropriation and imposition of land reserves
- public-private partnerships
- surface rights
- the drafting of agreements with property developers
- representation before the Commission de protection du territoire agricole du Québec (CPTAQ) as regards the agricultural sector
- servitudes
- land use
- usufruct