Québec

Firm overview

At Langlois, we offer a full range of legal services widely recognized for their quality, encompassing civil and commercial litigation, employment and labour law, insurance law, and business law. Our experienced professionals advise clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, construction and infrastructure, financial services, governance and ethics, insolvency and restructuring, taxation, maritime law, and intellectual property.

As one of Québec’s leading law firms, with more than 175 professionals, we stand out through the excellence of our services, the strength of our leadership, and our enduring commitment to organizational well-being—key pillars that contribute to our clients’ success, both in and out of the courtroom.

Our team’s agility, combined with our collaborative approach, allows us to deliver seamless, cross-practice solutions tailored to each client’s reality. Our model blends the proximity and responsiveness of a smaller firm with the full-service capabilities of a large one.

With more than 100 professionals, Langlois’ litigation group is among the largest in Québec. We cover the whole spectrum of legal disputes, including all stages of class action proceedings. Our team is recognized for its strategic case management, deep procedural knowledge, and unwavering focus on advancing our clients’ broader interests.

Throughout our history, Langlois has played a key role in precedent-setting litigation that has shaped the legal landscape in Québec and across Canada. Our team has successfully represented clients in numerous class actions in a wide range of industries, including air transportation, banking, telecommunications, automotive, pharmaceutical, and energy.

Firm overview

Miller Thomson LLP is one of Canada’s leading national business law firms with approximately 500 lawyers. We consistently deliver the highest quality advisory and advocacy skills and expertise required by international clients doing business in Canada. We have more Canadian locations than any other national firm, allowing our lawyers to provide our clients with valuable local knowledge. More specifically, with offices in Montreal, Vaughan, Toronto, Waterloo-Region, London, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver, we are uniquely positioned to provide ‘on the ground’ insight and knowledge from the country’s key economic hubs, and under both the common law and civil law systems in Canada.

Miller Thomson’s national advocacy practice comprises close to 200 litigators, organized around a comprehensive range of sub-specialties. Our expertise covers complex commercial litigation, class actions, construction litigation, environmental litigation, insurance defence, IP litigation, health litigation, securities litigation, shareholder disputes, tax litigation, insolvency, and labour & employment disputes, among other areas of litigation support. The national group has extensive experience acting for a wide range of clients in all industry segments in trial proceedings, court applications, arbitrations and appeals at the provincial and federal levels. These clients range from sole proprietorships and individuals to some of the largest and most recognized national and international corporations operating in Canada.

Our litigators look for opportunities for efficient and expedient dispute resolutions. In this regard, our litigators are experienced in mediation and arbitration proceedings of all types, whether required as part of the litigation process or undertaken pursuant to an agreement with the other side to a dispute.

The Group also draws on the firm’s discovery capabilities. Our litigators adopt procedures to drive greater case management and discovery efficiency, thereby mitigating the resource intensive, often costly document production phase of litigation.

We have extensive experience acting for clients in litigation concerning:

• Commercial contracts 
• Class actions 
• Constitutional challenges
• Employment and human rights 
• Real property disputes
• Environmental 
• Tax
• Antitrust
• Tort law
• Civil or extra contractual liability 
• Construction contracts, liens, claims
• Patent and trademark infringement
• Insolvency
• Professional liability claims
• Products liability claims 
• Defamation
• Injunctions
• Interim orders and other relief sought on an urgent basis
• Shareholder disputes
• Securities
• Regulatory
• Disciplinary
• Penal and criminal
• Directors’ and officers’ liability
• Breach of fiduciary obligations
• Health
• Medical Malpractice

Firm overview

CONSUMER LAW GROUP is a law firm with offices in Montreal and Ottawa, Canada.

We are actively engaged in complex litigation, emphasizing consumer protection, antitrust, drugs and product liability class actions.

Consumer Law Group’s experience and capabilities in these fields are based upon the talents of its attorneys, who are involved in numerous class action lawsuits.

We have worked in collaboration with several class action firms across Canada and the United States in files with a national and international scope.

Consumer Law Group is committed to practicing law with integrity and in an ethical and professional manner. We also strive to be good corporate citizens and to work with a sense of global responsibility.

Last updated April 2020.

Firm overview

WOODS LLP is the foremost litigation, arbitration and insolvency firm in Canada, recognised nationally and internationally for its expertise and success. Its team of attorneys — multilingual, trained in civil law and common law, dedicated to successful advocacy and understanding clients' interests — is known for its winning strategies and concrete results in high stakes disputes. The firm is proud of its reputation for having the talent and drive to handle the largest and most complex disputes, while remaining highly flexible, responsive and efficient.

Woods LLP acts for public and private companies, individuals and governments in corporate, commercial and administrative litigation, before all levels of courts and tribunals in Canada. It has a highly successful track record in disputes regarding corporate liability and governance, directors’ and officers’ liability, shareholders’ disputes, securities litigation, class actions, complex commercial agreements, as well as in strategic matters requiring urgent, injunctive relief. The firm also boasts an important practice in insolvency, employment law and defamation, as well as one of Canada’s only full-time international arbitration practices, representing clients and serving as arbitrators in international commercial and investment disputes.