On January 30, 2023, the Court of Appeal of Quebec rendered a decision in Commission scolaire De La Jonquière c. Intact Compagnie d?assurance.1 The key issues in this case are the potential for conflicts arising from liability insurance policies and the obligation to disclose documents where insurers? duty to defend conflicts with their duty to indemnify insureds. The facts This case is part of a class action in which all Quebec school boards?now referred to as school service centres (SSCs)?were accused of violating the right to free elementary and secondary education...
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Lavery is a major full-service law firm of more than 200 lawyers and the leading independent law firm in Quebec. The firm provides a comprehensive range of legal services to regional, national and multinational corporations; financial institutions; and government departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. It also has an extensive practice in advising other Canadian and foreign law firms on matters of Quebec law.
Lavery has developed strong ties with law firms and other professional firms across Canada, the United States and worldwide, thereby enabling us to assist our clients to develop opportunities outside Quebec. The firm is a member of the World Services Group, a global non-profit association with membership by invitation only, consisting of large local, national and international professional services providers in over 115 countries.
Year this Office was Established: 1913
Lawyers Worldwide: 318
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Romeo Aguilar Perez
Senior Associate
Gabrielle Ahélo
Avocate
Geneviève Beaudin
Partner
Josianne Beaudry
Partner
Anne Bélanger
Partner
Loïc Berdnikoff
Lawyer and Chief, Legal Operations and Conformity and Chief Privacy Officer
Rosemarie Bhérer Bouffard
Avocate
Laurence Bich-Carrière
Partner
Béatrice Bilodeau
Avocate
Dominic Boisvert
Partner
Véronik Bonneville-Pesant
Partner
Caroline Bourbonnais
Avocate principale
Elizabeth Bourgeois
Avocate
René Branchaud
Partner
Étienne Brassard
Partner
Philippe Brassard
Lawyer
Myriam Brixi
Partner
Céleste Brouillard-Ross
Avocate
Benoit Brouillette
Partner
Béatrice Bull
Avocate
Richard Burgos
Partner
Chanel Calabro
Avocate
Chanel Calabro
Avocate
Marie-Claude Cantin
Partner
Brittany Carson
Partner
Maxime Chabot
Lawyer
André Champagne
Partner
Christian Chidiac
Lawyer
Pamela Cifola
Avocate
Catherine Cloutier
Avocate
Victoria Cohene
Avocate principale
Maude Colpron
Avocate
Marie-Claude Côté
Avocate
Eugene Czolij
Partner
France Camille De Mers
Partner
Sylvie Demers
Avocate principale
Jean-Philippe Désilets
Lawyer
Chantal Desjardins
Partner and Agent de marques de commerce
Jean-Sébastien Desroches
Partner
Felipe Díaz Villegas
Lawyer
Raymond Doray
Partner
Stéphanie Dubois
Avocate
James Duffy
Patent Agent and Senior Associate
Alain Y. Dussault
Partner and Trademark Agent
Isabelle Duval
Partner
Ayman El Alamy
Lawyer
Ali El Haskouri
Partner
Eva Fog
Avocate
Florence Forest
Avocate principale
Roxane Fortin Lecompte
Avocate
Philippe Frère
Partner
Léonie Gagné
Avocate principale
Simon Gagné
Partner
Charles-Hugo Gagné
Lawyer
Nicolas Gagnon
Partner
Richard Gaudreault
Partner
Brigitte Gauthier
Partner
Julie Gauvreau
Partner and Agent de brevets and Agent de marques de commerce
Carole Gélinas
Partner
Audrey Gibeault
Partner
Joseph Gualdieri
Lawyer
Nadia Hanine
Avocate
Caroline Harnois
Partner
Ghiles Helli
Lawyer
Marie-Josée Hétu
Partner and Associé directrice (bureau de Trois-Rivières)
Maria Ionele
Avocate
Édith Jacques
Partner
Marie-Hélène Jolicoeur
Partner
Isabelle Jomphe
Partner and Agent de marques de commerce
Nicolas Joubert
Partner
Sofia Khan
Avocate
Katerina Kostopoulos
Avocate
Josiane L'Heureux
Partner
Guillaume Laberge
Partner
Jonathan Lacoste-Jobin
Partner
Maude Lafortune-Bélair
Avocate principale
Gabrielle Lagarde Le Chasseur
Avocate and Gestionnaire, développement professionnel
Awatif Lakhdar
Partner
Bernard Larocque
Partner
Guy Lavoie
Partner
Jean Legault
Partner
Carl Lessard
Partner
Selena Lu
Partner
Despina Mandilaras
Avocate principale
Hugh Mansfield
Partner and Patent Agent and Trademark Agent
Élizabeth Martin-Chartrand
Avocate
Gabrielle Mathieu
Avocate
Jean-François Maurice
Lawyer
Zeïneb Mellouli
Partner
Isabelle P. Mercure
Partner
Catherine Méthot
Avocate principale
Mélanie Meunier
Avocate principale, gestion du savoir en droit des affaires
Béatrice T Ngatcha
Partner and Agent de brevets
Camille Ouellet
Avocate
Michaël Pageau
Senior Associate
André Paquette
Partner
Jessica Parent
Avocate principale
Luc Pariseau
Partner
Catherine Pariseault
Avocate principale
Ariane Pasquier
Partner
Audrey Pelletier
Avocate
Kabrina Péron
Avocate
Martin Pichette
Partner
Marie-Eve Pomerleau
Partner
Daphné Pormerleau-Normandin
Avocate
Jean-Vincent Prévost-Bérubé
Lawyer
Mathias Rancourt
Partner
François Renaud
Partner
Camille Rioux
Avocate principale
Marc Rochefort
Partner
Sophie Roy
Avocate principale
Chantal Saint-Onge
Avocate
Ouassim Tadlaoui
Partner
Charles Olivier Thibeault
Partner
Jean-Paul Timothée
Senior Associate
David Tournier
Partner
Bernard Trang
Lawyer
Alexandre Turcotte
Lawyer
Mylène Vallières
Avocate principale
Dominique Vallières
Senior Associate
Laurie Vandal-Fortin
Avocate principale
André Vautour
Partner
Bruno Verdon
Partner
Sébastien Vézina
Partner
Jonathan Warin
Partner
Adnana Zbona
Avocate principaleLinguistic Services

Danielle Bureau
Services linguistiques
Michèle Gamache
Services linguistiques
Stefan Gillian
Linguistic services
Jean-François Lauzon
Linguistic services
Mathieu Legris
Linguistic services
Joanne Martin
Services linguistiques
Jean-Pierre Nadeau
Linguistic services
Sofie Peers
Services linguistiques
Yannick Pourbaix
Linguistic servicesLegal Counsel

Éric Gélinas
Counsel
Michel Gélinas
Counsel
Pierre Marc Johnson
Counsel
Patrick A. Molinari
Counsel
Jacques Paul-Hus
Counsel
Ian Rose
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Maxym Bédard
Étudiante
Dolaine Béland
Parajuriste
Yasmine Belrachid
Étudiante
Laurence Bernard
Étudiante
Gwendoline Bruneau
Agent de brevets
Manar Choukair
Étudiante
Sophie Crevier
Stagiaire
Charlotte Dangoisse
Notaire principale
Janet Dell’Orto
Agent de marques de commerce
Julie Doan
Notaire principale
Marianne Duboy
Stagiaire
Sylvain Dubuc
Chief, Finance and Administration
Alain Dumont
Patent Agent
Éloïse Fortin
Étudiante
Florence Fournier
Parajuriste
Mireille Francoeur
Chargée de projets spéciaux, soutien à la direction
Dardia Garcelle Joseph
Stagiaire
Nadine Giguère
Parajuriste
Line Grandmaison
Parajuriste
Annie Groleau
Parajuriste
Sonia Guérin
Parajuriste
Amélie Journet
Chef, talents et développement professionnel
Martin Laprade
Paralegal
Gonzalo Lavin
Patent Agent
Jean-Francois Lemieux
Business Development Manager
Gabrielle Manion Tinkler
Parajuriste
Eleftheria Manioudakis
Director, Business Development
Sandrine Masri
Étudiante
Nicole Messier
Notaire principale
Joëlle Montpetit
Parajuriste
Renaud Murphy
Articling Student
Ana Cristina Nascimento
Parajuriste
Isabelle Normand
Parajuriste
Anne-Sophie Paradis
Étudiante
Isabelle Pelletier
Agent de brevets
Belinda Rigon
Parajuriste
Erwin Schultz
Patent Agent
El Hadji Alioune Seck
Student
Serge Shahinian
Patent Agent
Madeleine Stringer
Étudiante
Zoe Sukster
Étudiante
Anik Trudel
Cheffe de la direction
Marie-Denise Vane
Étudiante
Alexandra Yazbeck
Étudiante
Benoit Yelle
Patent Agent
Jennifer Younes
StagiaireArticles
Insurers: Two-headed hydras
On January 30, 2023, the Court of Appeal of Quebec rendered a decision in Commission scolaire De La Jonquière c. Intact Compagnie d?assurance.1 The key issues in this case are the potential for conflicts arising from liability insurance policies and the obligation to disclose documents where insurers? duty to defend conflicts with their duty to indemnify insureds. The facts This case is part of a class action in which all Quebec school boards?now referred to as school service centres (SSCs)?were accused of violating the right to free elementary and secondary education...
Press
Lavery Assists Premier Parks LLC in the Purchase of Calypso-Valcartier Group’s Shares
Calypso-Valcartier Group recently announced the sale of all of the shares of its two amusement parks, Village Vacances Valcartier located near Quebec City and Calypso, near Ottawa, and more specifically of the shares of the two parks’ operating corporations and their asset holding corporations. The assets of the two parks are now indirectly owned by EPR Properties, and they are operated by a Canadian subsidiary of Premier Parks, LLC. Our partners, André Vautour and France Camille De Mers, and their team assisted Premier Parks LLC in the due diligence of the parks’ assets and operations...
Lavery Helps to Establish an Affordable Housing Fund Worth $151 Million
On May 4, 2021, the Government of Canada, the Government of Québec, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Ivanhoé Cambridge announced the formation of a consortium of investors that will make $120 million available to co-ops, non-profit organizations (NPOs) and housing agencies for the construction or renovation of affordable housing. The Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation, Fondaction, the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation and the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation collectively added $31 million to the sum. The strategic partnership will be managed by the Association des groupes de ressources techniques du Québec (AGRTQ) starting in the fall of 2021...