After more than three hours in police custody, the mayor of Saint-Étienne is released and wants to continue his mandate. The LR mayor of Saint-Etienne and president of the Saint-Etienne metropolis, Gaël Perdriau, splashed by a political blackmail scandal within his municipality, rules out stepping back or resigning, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday 15 … Read more
Me Luc Morin. Source: Norton Rose Fulbright website Five years after having moved there, Me Luc Morin becomes the managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright Montreal. Chosen by the firm’s partners for a three-year term, renewable once, Luc Morin succeeds Solomon Sananes, who recruited him himself in 2017. Being chosen is good, but you still … Read more
Source: Shutterstock Droit-Inc recently wrote that lateral transfers—where lawyers change firms—more than doubled last year in the United States. A trend that we also observe close to home, while most firms refer to labor shortages. The problem is that the usual candidate screening processes don’t always find the skeletons that might be in a lawyer’s … Read more
Me Michael Citrome is no longer… Source: LinkedIn Me Michel Cirome died suddenly at the age of 41. This tax lawyer had joined De Grandpré Chait as a partner last January. At the age of 17, Michael Citrome began his professional life as a journalist for the Montreal Gazette. He mainly produced articles relating to … Read more
Source: Bar of Montreal website The Bar of Montreal has set up an ALTER EGO bulletin board for all its members. This service offers the possibility for lawyers to help each other for the realization of specific mandates. If you need occasional help for a mandate? You can fill out this form and post your … Read more
According to first quarter 2022 transaction data compiled by Refinitiv, Canadian lawyers are reporting a 41% drop in the number of announced and completed transactions. Thus, from January 1 to March 31, 2022, only 537 global M&A transactions were announced for Canadian firms. This is down from 910 for the corresponding period of 2021. As … Read more
Me Camille Bugel. Source: LinkedIn The Laframboise team is expanding with the arrival of Me Camille Bugel. This newly admitted to the Bar – he has been a member since last year – joins a firm specializing in civil, commercial, family and corporate law litigation. Me Bugel, for his part, practices mainly in litigation and … Read more
Me Jimmy Ernst Jr. Lambert and Me François M.Giroux. Source: LinkedIn and Lakehead University The judge Pierre Gagnon of the Superior Court rejects the $200,000 agreement concluded between Uber Eats and the plaintiffs’ lawyer for two class actions. The magistrate points to the “low pecuniary amount of the settlement” for a group made up of … Read more
Jennifer Lachance, Rachel Sarfati and Tania Brunet. Source: LinkedIn Until March 26, Jennifer Lachance Rachel Sarfati and Tania Brunetall candidates for a master’s degree in law at Laval University, pleaded in Albania and are one of approximately 50 three-person teams to participate in a simulation of a fictional armed conflict. They participated in the Jean-Pictet … Read more
Jeremy Diamond is on several billboards. It is in this context that the Disciplinary Council of the Bar of Ontario has just rejected the sentence proposed jointly by the syndic of the bar and the defence, reports the daily Toronto Star. Misleading advertising by lawyers is common elsewhere in the country, especially in the area … Read more