Montreal

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.

• Privacy and access to information
• Contracting by public bodies
• Judicial review of government action
• Professional law
• Public freedoms and human rights
• Health and educational establishment organization
• Police organization and ethics
• Public economic development organizations

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.

• Corporate law and shareholder rights
• Real estate law
• Social economy and non-profit organizations
• Corporate bankruptcy and insolvency
• Financing and banking law
• Business mergers, acquisitions and sales
• Security enforcement
• Commercial arbitration services
• Commercial mediation services

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’ insureds.

• Insurance law
• Construction law
• Insolvency
• Civil disputes
• Inheritance disputes
• Debt collection
• Contractual liability
• Manufacturer’s liability
• Extra-contractual liability
• Professional liability
• Arbitration services
• Mediation services

Our labour law team consists of renowned lawyers supported by outstanding young talent. It has extensive experience in collective agreement negotiation and drafting and grievance and dispute arbitration. Our lawyers appear before courts and administrative tribunals in the context of labour relations disputes.

• Grievance and dispute arbitration
• Dismissal and disciplinary measures
• Individual employment contracts and labour standards
• Judicial review of labour tribunals
• Pay equity
• Job evaluation
• Financing and compensation for work accidents
• Certification disputes
• Collective agreement negotiation
• Prevention in occupational health and safety
• Pension and benefit plans

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.

• Land use planning and development
• Contracting by municipal bodies
• Judicial review of municipal bodies
• Municipal courts and criminal law
• Environment
• Municipal ethics and professional conduct
• Property assessment
• Expropriation
• Municipal taxation
• Municipal organization and procedures
• Protection of agricultural land
• Municipal liability