The Best Lawyers in Canada 2025 recognize 88 lawyers of Lavery

August 29, 2024

Lavery is pleased to announce that 88 of its lawyers have been recognized as leaders in their respective fields of expertise by The Best Lawyers in Canada 2025.

The ranking is based entirely on peer recognition and rewards the professional performance of the country's top lawyers.

The following lawyers also received the Lawyer of the Year award in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada:

Isabelle Jomphe: Intellectual Property Law
Myriam Lavallée : Labour and Employment Law

Consult the complete list of Lavery's lawyers and their fields of expertise:

Geneviève Beaudin : Employee Benefits Law

Josianne Beaudry : Mergers and Acquisitions Law / Mining Law / Securities Law
Geneviève Bergeron : Intellectual Property Law
Laurence Bich-Carrière : Class Action Litigation / Contruction Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation / Product Liability Law
Dominic Boivert : Insurance Law
Luc R. Borduas : Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Daniel Bouchard : Environmental Law
René Branchaud : Mining Law / Natural Resources Law / Securities Law
Étienne Brassard : Equipment Finance Law / Mergers and Acquisitions Law / Project Finance Law / Real Estate Law
Jules Brière : Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice / Administrative and Public Law / Health Care Law
Myriam Brixi : Class Action Litigation / Product Liability Law
Benoit Brouillette : Labour and Employment Law
Marie-Claude Cantin : Construction Law / Insurance Law
Brittany Carson : Labour and Employment Law
André Champagne : Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Chantal Desjardins : Intellectual Property Law
Jean-Sébastien Desroches : Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Raymond Doray : Administrative and Public Law / Defamation and Media Law / Privacy and Data Security Law
Christian Dumoulin : Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Alain Y. Dussault : Intellectual Property Law
Isabelle Duval : Family Law
Ali El Haskouri : Banking and Finance Law
Philippe Frère : Administrative and Public Law
Simon Gagné : Labour and Employment Law
Nicolas Gagnon : Construction Law
Richard Gaudreault : Labour and Employment Law
Julie Gauvreau : Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice / Intellectual Property Law
Marc-André Godin : Commercial Leasing Law / Real Estate Law
Caroline Harnois : Family Law / Family Law Mediation / Trusts and Estates
Marie-Josée Hétu : Labour and Employment Law
Édith Jacques : Corporate Law / Energy Law / Natural Resources Law
Marie-Hélène Jolicoeur : Labour and Employment Law
Isabelle Jomphe : Advertising and Marketing Law / Intellectual Property Law
Nicolas Joubert : Labour and Employment Law
Guillaume Laberge : Administrative and Public Law
Jonathan Lacoste-Jobin : Insurance Law
Awatif Lakhdar : Family Law
Marc-André Landry : Alternative Dispute Resolution / Class Action Litigation / Construction Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation / Product Liability Law
Éric Lavallée : Technology Law
Myriam Lavallée : Labour and Employment Law
Guy Lavoie : Labour and Employment Law / Workers' Compensation Law
Jean Legault : Banking and Finance Law / Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law
Carl Lessard : Labour and Employment Law / Workers' Compensation Law
Josiane L'Heureux : Labour and Employment Law
Hugh Mansfield : Intellectual Property Law
Zeïneb Mellouli : Labour and Employment Law / Workers' Compensation Law
Isabelle P. Mercure : Trusts and Estates / Tax Law
Patrick A. Molinari : Health Care Law
Luc Pariseau : Tax Law / Trusts and Estates
Ariane Pasquier : Labour and Employment Law
Hubert Pepin : Labour and Employment Law
Martin Pichette : Insurance Law / Professional Malpractice Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation
Élisabeth Pinard : Family Law / Family Law Mediation
François Renaud : Banking and Finance Law / Structured Finance Law
Marc Rochefort : Securities Law
Yves Rocheleau : Corporate Law
Judith Rochette : Alternative Dispute Resolution / Insurance Law / Professional Malpractice Law
Ian Rose FCIArb : Class Action Litigation / Director and Officer Liability Practice / Insurance Law
Ouassim Tadlaoui : Construction Law / Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law
David Tournier : Banking and Finance Law
Vincent Towner : Commercial Leasing Law
André Vautour : Corporate Governance Practice / Corporate Law / Energy Law / Information Technology Law / Intellectual Property Law / Private Funds Law / Technology Law / Venture Capital Law
Bruno Verdon : Corporate and Commercial Litigation
Sébastien Vézina : Mergers and Acquisitions Law / Mining Law / Sports Law
Yanick Vlasak : Banking and Finance Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation / Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law
Jonathan Warin : Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law

We are pleased to highlight our rising stars, who also distinguished themselves in this directory in the Ones To Watch category:

Romeo Aguilar Perez : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Anne-Marie Asselin : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Rosemarie Bhérer Bouffard : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Marc-André Bouchard : Construction Law (Ones To Watch)
Céleste Brouillard-Ross : Construction Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation (Ones To Watch)
Karl Chabot : Construction Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation (Ones To Watch)
Justine Chaput : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Julien Ducharme : Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Ones To Watch)
James Duffy : Intellectual Property Law (Ones To Watch)
Joseph Gualdieri : Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Ones To Watch)
Katerina Kostopoulos : Corporate Law (Ones To Watch)
Joël Larouche : Corporate and Commercial Litigation (Ones To Watch)
Despina Mandilaras : Construction Law / Corporate and Commercial Litigation (Ones To Watch)
Jean-François Maurice : Corporate Law (Ones To Watch)
Jessica Parent : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Audrey Pelletier : Tax Law (Ones To Watch)
Alexandre Pinard : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Camille Rioux : Labour and Employment Law (Ones To Watch)
Sophie Roy : Insurance Law (Ones To Watch)
Chantal Saint-Onge : Corporate and Commercial Litigation (Ones To Watch)
Bernard Trang : Banking and Finance Law / Project Finance Law (Ones To Watch)
Mylène Vallières : Mergers and Acquisitions Law / Securities Law (Ones To Watch)

These recognitions are further demonstration of the expertise and quality of legal services that characterize Lavery’s professionals.

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