For the 9th consecutive year, Mr. Jean Saint-Onge, Ad. E., Litigation partner at Lavery, has organized and hosted the National Seminar on Class Actions of the Quebec Bar’s Continuing Education Services, which was held on March 21-22, 2013 at the Palais des congrès in Montreal.
This seminar represents the most important professional training event in the area of class actions in Canada. It gathered a total of 35 speakers, class action lawyers and judges from everywhere in North America as well as about a dozen sponsors. The seminar enabled participants to receive leading edge training in this fast-evolving practice area that focused on recent developments in Quebec, Canada and the United States as well as the latest trends with respect to international class actions.
Mr. Jean-Philippe Lincourt, an associate in Lavery’s class action team, gave a well-attended conference on landmark class action cases in Quebec in 2012.
Mr. Saint-Onge was recently ranked as Lawyer of the Year 2013 in the category Class Action Litigation - (Montréal) by the legal directory The Best Lawyers in Canada.
