This section keeps you up-to-date on the latest news and upcoming public appearances of Lavery professionals.
News
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Lavery.ca goes mobile
We have just launched a mobile version of our website! Smartphone users can now access it quickly and easily by entering the same address as for our main website.
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Three Lavery lawyers named among the leading US-Canada cross-border lawyers
Lavery is pleased to announce that three of its partners have been named in Lexpert's following guides: 2011 Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada Michel Blouin, Mining Law Olga Farman, Corporate Lawyer to Watch 2011 Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada Jean Saint-Onge, Ad. E., Class Actions These guides highlight the leading cross-border lawyers across a variety of specialty areas of importance, Lawyers are chosen based on individual results through Lexpert’s peer review survey.
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Véronique Morin presents a workshop at the human resources seminar on knowledge management
On December 1, Véronique Morin, lawyer at Lavery, was a lecturer for a workshop entitled “Transfert de connaissances en relations de travail et médias sociaux : l’apport d’un groupe de discussion” (The transfer of knowledge in work relationships and social media: the benefits of group discussions), which offered practical exercises in order to show participants the significance of such groups by basing it on social media.Lavery was a sponsor of this event organized by the Association québécoise d'établissements de santé et de services sociaux (AQESSS).
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Marc Beauchemin and André Vautour participate in a conference on regulatory conformity for the financial services
On December 1, Marc Beauchemin and André Vautour participated in the Canadian Institute’s 2nd conference on regulatory compliance for financial services. Held at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the conference was on the requirements of additional examinations by regulatory authorities.Mr. Beauchemin and Mr. Vautour’s presentation, called “Gérer les risques inhérents à l’impartition à toutes les étapes de la relation avec le fournisseur” (Managing risks from outsourcing in all the steps of a relationship with a supplier), discussed many factors that represent challenges when outsourcing as well as practical methods to use in an outsourcing agreement.
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Jean Saint-Onge, Chair of the Board of Fondation Marie-Vincent, appears in Cyberpresse
Jean Saint-Onge, partner at Lavery and Chair of the Marie-Vincent Fondation, in the presence of other members of the Foundation, including Claude Mongeau, CN President and Chief Executive Office and honorary president of the 2011 fundraising campaign, last November to announce that this campaign helped raise 1,350,000 dollars to benefit children under 12 who are victims of abuse, notably sexual abuse. For the past 35 years, the Foundation has raised funds to support prevention, education, and aid initiatives for children and their families. Cyberpresse spoke of this successful campaign on its website. The full article (in French only) is available by clicking here.
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Lavery welcomes Carolina Manganelli, Aboriginal Law Lawyer
Lavery is pleased to welcome Carolina Manganelli to the Administrative and Regulatory Law Group in the firm’s Montreal offices. Ms. Manganelli practises in the areas of aboriginal law, environmental law, energy and natural resources, mining law and government affairs.She has extensive expertise in aboriginal law, constitutional law and human rights, and previously worked for several years at the Department of Justice of Canada, in the Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio, most recently as Executive Assistant in the office of the Assistant Deputy Attorney General. From 2000 to 2002, she participated in several international missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Manganelli has pleaded before several administrative tribunals as well as the Superior Court and Court of Appeal of Quebec. She has also represented clients before both the Quebec and Canadian Human Rights Commissions as well as the Police Ethics Commissioner.Ms. Manganelli holds an LL.M. in human rights law with an award of "Merit" from University College London, in London, United Kingdom, and received her LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University in 2000. She also obtained a B.A. in sociology, with a minor in Canadian ethnic studies, with distinction, from McGill in 1996. Ms. Manganelli has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2005.She speaks fluent English, French, Italian and Greek, as well as Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
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Dina Raphaël and Nathalie Durocher, Speakers on risk management for the financial sector
On November 16 and 17, Dina Raphaël, partner at Lavery, and Nathalie Durocher, lawyer at Lavery, were speakers at the 4th edition of the “Conformité et gestion des risques pour les marchés financiers” conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. Ms. Raphaël and Ms. Durocher’s presentation was called “Changement de culture : ligne directrice proposée par l’Autorité des marchés financiers à l’égard des assureurs en matière de pratiques commerciales” (Change of Culture : Proposed Guidelines from the Autorité des marchés financiers for insurers in regards to commercial practices).
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Cocktail Lavery 2011
Some 175 people attended Lavery’s annual cocktail that was held in the modern, industrial surroundings of the Panoramic Hall at the Montréal Science Centre on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Véronique Morin Gives a Lecture at the Certified Human Resources Advisors’ Congress
The professional corporation of Quebec’s human resources managers, the Ordre des Conseillers en ressources humaines (CRHA), invited Véronique Morin to give a talk at the International Congress of Francophone HR managers, the theme of which was Innovation and Creativity. Over 1500 people attended the event, which took place in Quebec City last October 17 and 18. Ms Morin’s lecture was titled “Employment contracts: innovating in order to recruit and retain employees”.
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The Right to Privacy and the Protection of Personal Information in a Claims Process
October 26 and 27, 2011, at the Lavery Conference CentreToday, insurers must deal with increasingly stringent rules in terms of privacy and the protection of personal information. What are these rules, and how can insurers avoid them from becoming major stumbling blocks when processing a claim? Over 80 people attended lectures on this topic byMarie-Andrée Gagnon (liability, damage insurance, and personal insurance) and Loïc Berdnikoff (administrative law, personal information, and privacy) at the Lavery Conference Centre, last October 26 and 27. During the event, participants were particularly encouraged to get acquainted with the various legislative schemes that apply to insurers and to third parties they are liable to interact with, and they received much practical advice about accessing the required records and information when processing a claim.
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Seminar on the e-Distribution of Insurance Products
Last October 13, several persons involved in the compliance and distribution of financial products and services attended a Lavery Seminar titled “e-distribution of insurance products”, about present issues in the online distribution of insurance products.Lawyers who are active in the practice group on the Distribution of Financial Products and Services talked about the concerns that the use of new technologies presently generate in the insurance industry, with the special participation of Eric Stevenson, manager of distribution practices at the AMF.
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Jean-Simon Deschênes wins JCI Canada’s Award of the Most Outstanding Senator
JCI Canada (Junior Chamber International Canada) recently awarded Jean-Simon Deschênes the prestigious award of Most Outstanding Canadian Senator for 2011.JCI Canada is an affiliate of the Junior Chamber International, a world federation of young entrepreneurs and business leaders. JCI Canada comprises some 35 chapters that are active in communities from one ocean to another and are made up of young individuals who want to bring about positive change within themselves, their community and the world.