On May 28, Me Jean Saint-Onge, partner in Lavery’s litigation group, was guest speaker at a business luncheon organized jointly by the Class action and Dispute resolution sections of the Canadian Bar Association. The other guest panelists were the Honourable François Roland, chief justice, Superior Court of Quebec, and Me François Lebeau, of Unterberg, Labelle, Lebeau. The topic was the role of mediation and settlement conferences in class actions.