Québec

Firm overview

At KRB, our team of litigators provides comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of contentious business matters, guiding clients through every stage of a dispute — from strategic pre-litigation planning to effective resolution thereafter. Rooted in the firm’s core values, our team approaches each case with a deep understanding of the clients’ commercial objectives, ensuring that every strategy is tailored to advance their broader goals.

Clients can rely on us to pursue every avenue — from innovative dispute resolution techniques to vigorous advocacy before the Courts — with unwavering dedication to protecting and promoting their interests. Our litigators have extensive experience before all levels of Court and administrative tribunals, including appearances before appellate Courts, and up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

We work seamlessly with KRB’s corporate, real estate, and finance groups, ensuring that every mandate benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective and a technically robust strategy. This collaborative approach empowers us to deliver practical and sophisticated solutions to even the most complex situations.

Firm overview

CONSUMER LAW GROUP is a law firm with offices in Montreal and Ottawa, Canada.

We are actively engaged in complex litigation, emphasizing consumer protection, antitrust, drugs and product liability class actions.

Consumer Law Group’s experience and capabilities in these fields are based upon the talents of its attorneys, who are involved in numerous class action lawsuits.

We have worked in collaboration with several class action firms across Canada and the United States in files with a national and international scope.

Consumer Law Group is committed to practicing law with integrity and in an ethical and professional manner. We also strive to be good corporate citizens and to work with a sense of global responsibility.

Last updated April 2020.

Firm overview

At Langlois, we offer a full range of legal services widely recognized for their quality, encompassing civil and commercial litigation, employment and labour law, insurance law, and business law. Our experienced professionals advise clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, construction and infrastructure, financial services, governance and ethics, insolvency and restructuring, taxation, maritime law, and intellectual property.

As one of Québec’s leading law firms, with more than 175 professionals, we stand out through the excellence of our services, the strength of our leadership, and our enduring commitment to organizational well-being—key pillars that contribute to our clients’ success, both in and out of the courtroom.

Our team’s agility, combined with our collaborative approach, allows us to deliver seamless, cross-practice solutions tailored to each client’s reality. Our model blends the proximity and responsiveness of a smaller firm with the full-service capabilities of a large one.

With more than 100 professionals, Langlois’ litigation group is among the largest in Québec. We cover the whole spectrum of legal disputes, including all stages of class action proceedings. Our team is recognized for its strategic case management, deep procedural knowledge, and unwavering focus on advancing our clients’ broader interests.

Throughout our history, Langlois has played a key role in precedent-setting litigation that has shaped the legal landscape in Québec and across Canada. Our team has successfully represented clients in numerous class actions in a wide range of industries, including air transportation, banking, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceutical, and energy.

Firm overview

Bennett Jones is consistently recognized for its expertise in domestic and cross-border litigation. The firm is known for its uncompromising strength in the areas of competition and antitrust, securities, class actions, energy, commercial, intellectual property, fraud, construction, restructuring/insolvency, employment, health, and professional negligence litigation and has prominent practitioners in alternate dispute resolution, including international commercial arbitration. We are committed to working with our clients to develop an effective and cost-efficient strategy to identify and achieve their unique goals in the prosecution and defense of business disputes.

With more than 100 lawyers practicing commercial litigation nationally, Bennett Jones litigators have significant experience in all aspects of dispute resolution, and have leading reputations before courts and tribunals. We represent some of Canada's largest corporations, including energy producers, and technology and telecommunications companies, and are skilled in conducting commercial arbitrations, including those involving issues in the oil and gas, mining and construction industries. Our litigation practice is supported by the considerable strength of our appellate advocacy and judicial review practice which provides clients and referring counsel with specialized and strategic advice on all aspects of cases on appeal or under judicial review.

We are frequently retained by major domestic and international corporations in the defense of class actions. Representing parties at every stage of the lawsuit, from pre-certification motions and applications through to trial, we bring to each phase coordinated strategies and effective communications to streamline the litigation process. We also advise clients on mitigating their class action risk and proactively monitor trends in prospective class action developments.

Recognizing that many disputes are settled prior to trial, our commercial and technical expertise provides another valuable set of skills to the negotiation and settlement of litigation. Our team approach ensures that we provide the most timely, effective and innovative support to our clients. Our lawyers' reputations, contributions to Canadian case law, and distinguished history of service have resulted in top rankings in all major legal directories for many of our litigators, in a multitude of litigation practice areas.

Firm Culture:

Bennett Jones reflects the integrity and professional excellence of the firm’s Founding Partners. After more than 100 years of service, the firm has produced some of Canada’s most accomplished legal and business leaders, fostering values that established it as one of Canada’s most successful business law firms. The firm prides itself on offering clients innovative, strategic and forward-thinking approaches to their most complex legal and regulatory challenges and opportunities. Bennett Jones promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment where mutual respect and independent thought lead client and colleague interactions. Bennett Jones is proud to have been recognized for 23 consecutive years as one of Canada’s Best Employers.