Québec

Firm overview

At Langlois Lawyers, we offer a complete range of highly regarded legal services spanning civil and commercial litigation, employment and labour law, insurance law, and business law. Our seasoned teams provide counsel in several sectors, such as capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, construction and infrastructure, financial institutions and services, governance and ethics, insolvency and restructuring, taxation, maritime law, and intellectual property.

As a leading Québec law firm with more than 175 professionals, we distinguish ourselves not only by the excellence of our services and the leadership of our teams, but also by our continued dedication to organizational well-being, all of which contribute to our clients’ successes in and out of the courtrooms.

Our firm’s flexibility coupled with our team’s agility enables us to benefit from cross-practice-and-industry synergies, resulting in tailored business solutions. Our client-centric approach ensures we are providing the accessibility and proximity of a small or medium-sized firm while combining the legal services of a large firm.

Langlois’ litigation group has more than 125 professionals, making it one of the largest groups in Québec. The team’s strengths cover the entire litigation spectrum and include an efficient case-management approach coupled with constant attention to its clients’ broader interests. The firm’s clients benefit from a team of litigators who are proficient in both of Canada’s official languages and trained in both civil and common law.

Langlois has acted in many major litigation cases that have shaped Québec’s and Canada’s legal landscape over the past 25 years by virtue of their public, political, economic, commercial and social implications. We have also successfully litigated a large number of class actions in a variety of industries, including air transportation, banking, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceutical, and energy.

Areas of Practice:

• Aboriginal Law
• Capital Markets
• Construction & Infrastructure Law
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Corporate Governance
• Energy & Natural Resources Law
• Environmental Law
• Financial Institutions & Financial Services Law
• Financing
• Insolvency & Restructuring
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• Labour & Employment Law
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Maritime Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Personal Information and Data Protection
• Public & Administrative Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities
• Tax
• Transportation Law

Firm overview

Miller Thomson LLP is one of Canada’s leading national business law firms with approximately 500 lawyers. We consistently deliver the highest quality advisory and advocacy skills and expertise required by international clients doing business in Canada. We have more Canadian locations than any other national firm, allowing our lawyers to provide our clients with valuable local knowledge. More specifically, with offices in Montreal, Vaughan, Toronto, Waterloo-Region, London, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver, we are uniquely positioned to provide ‘on the ground’ insight and knowledge from the country’s key economic hubs, and under both the common law and civil law systems in Canada.

Miller Thomson’s national advocacy practice comprises close to 200 litigators, organized around a comprehensive range of sub-specialties. Our expertise covers complex commercial litigation, class actions, construction litigation, environmental litigation, insurance defence, IP litigation, health litigation, securities litigation, shareholder disputes, tax litigation, insolvency, and labour & employment disputes, among other areas of litigation support. The national group has extensive experience acting for a wide range of clients in all industry segments in trial proceedings, court applications, arbitrations and appeals at the provincial and federal levels. These clients range from sole proprietorships and individuals to some of the largest and most recognized national and international corporations operating in Canada.

Our litigators look for opportunities for efficient and expedient dispute resolutions. In this regard, our litigators are experienced in mediation and arbitration proceedings of all types, whether required as part of the litigation process or undertaken pursuant to an agreement with the other side to a dispute.

The Group also draws on the firm’s discovery capabilities. Our litigators adopt procedures to drive greater case management and discovery efficiency, thereby mitigating the resource intensive, often costly document production phase of litigation.

We have extensive experience acting for clients in litigation concerning:

• Commercial contracts 
• Class actions 
• Constitutional challenges
• Employment and human rights 
• Real property disputes
• Environmental 
• Tax
• Antitrust
• Tort law
• Civil or extra contractual liability 
• Construction contracts, liens, claims
• Patent and trademark infringement
• Insolvency
• Professional liability claims
• Products liability claims 
• Defamation
• Injunctions
• Interim orders and other relief sought on an urgent basis
• Shareholder disputes
• Securities
• Regulatory
• Disciplinary
• Penal and criminal
• Directors’ and officers’ liability
• Breach of fiduciary obligations
• Health
• Medical Malpractice

Updated April 2024

Firm overview

BLG is widely recognized as Canada’s foremost litigation law firm, with a national team of more than 400 advocates helping clients with everything from appellate advocacy to trade disputes.

• More than 400 advocates
• 500+ trials, arbitrations, tribunal hearings
• Defended 100s of class actions
• 32 specialty areas
• 2022 Benchmark Highly Recommended Firm in all of our regions
• 2022 Benchmark Insurance Firm of the Year
• 2021 and 2022 Benchmark Health Law/Medical Firm of the Year
• Offices in Canada’s 5 largest cities
• Bilingual in English and French
• Celebrating 200 years in 2023

When the stakes are highest, organizations from across Canada and around the world trust us to help solve their problems. From claims that interrupt day-to-day activities to bet-the-company litigation, we understand the issues that keep our clients up at night, using this knowledge as the foundation for responsive, strategic and practical advice. Complex, precedent-setting, novel cases in specialized areas of the law - particularly when they make it to the Supreme Court - are how we’ve built our reputation. We use this experience to advocate for the best outcomes for organizations of all sizes, from tech start-ups defending their IP to global automakers facing a class action. We use mediation, arbitration and eDiscovery technology, when appropriate, to increase efficiency and decrease cost. We are smart, resourceful, creative, driven, humble and always civil.

We are the external partner that feels like part of the in-house team. And clients never get just one of us -because behind every BLG advocate is the most powerful group of litigators and legal staff in Canada.

Firm overview

LCM Attorneys Inc. is one of Montréal’s leading litigation boutiques, serving an impressive list of clients in a wide array of matters, including class actions, commercial litigation, shareholders’ disputes, securities law, professional liability, public law litigation, construction disputes, injunctions, arbitration and international matters.

Founded in 2014 by a group of five partners from one of Canada’s premier national firms, LCM Attorneys now boasts nearly thirty lawyers renowned for their in-depth expertise, savvy, hands-on approach and creativity in crafting winning strategies and finding practical solutions to the most challenging legal issues.

The firm’s lawyers have earned the highest awards and are recognized by their peers for their expertise and the quality of their services. Members of LCM Attorneys’ team have been inducted as Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL), received the prestigious designation of Advocatus Emeritus (lawyer emeritus) by the Bar of Québec, and are consistently ranked among the best lawyers in their fields.

LCM Attorneys is proud of Benchmark Canada’s decision to recognize nine members of its team in its 2023 Edition: Bernard Amyot, Ad. E., Julien Archambault, Sébastien Caron Ad. E. ICD, Olivier Fraticelli, David Joanisse, Dominique Ménard and David Quesnel as Litigation Stars, as well as Marie-Noël Rochon and Nicolas Roche as Future Stars.

Adding to its bench strength, LCM Attorneys can count on the presence of renowned counsel Max Bernard, Ad. E.

Updated April 2024