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Cain Lamarre Casgrain Wells LLP Total Lawyers: 150 Lawyers By Office: Quebec City, 32; Saguenay, 30; Montreal, 29; Drummondville, 13; Rimouski, 9; Sherbrooke, 7; Sept-Îles, 7; Val-d'Or, 6; Alma, 4; Saint-Félicien, 3; Saint-Georges, 3 Plessisville, 2; Amos, 2; Roberval, 2; Amqui, 1 Core Practice Areas: commercial and corporate affairs; banking and finance; labour and employment law; native affairs; public administration Key Clients: financial institutions; health-care institutions, municipalities, public institutions; First Nations; telecom- munications carriers; transportation companies; companies in the energy and natural resources sector Notable Mandates: constitutionality contests handled by lawyers André Gauthier and Raymond Nepveu on behalf of the Conference of Municipal Judges of Quebec; work for Innu First Nations communities under the Mamuitun Tribal Council to negotiate a modern treaty with the Crown on land claims and self-government; represented the company Transpavé, which was accused in 2007 of criminal negligence causing death following an incident involving an employee 3 Star Alumni: former Canadian ambassador to France and Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard; Quebec Superior Court justices France Bergeron, Martin Dallaire, and Robert Dufresne Affiliations: State Capital Group The Firm: Cain Lamarre Casgrain Wells came on the scene in 1999 following the merger of three firms — Cain Lamarre Wells, founded in 1928 in Chicoutimi; Gauthier Nepveu Leblanc Brouillette, established in Sept-Îles in 1951; and Casgrain Desrosiers Lévesque Bujold Villeneuve, which dated back to 1877. Firm president André Gauthier says it must now establish a presence in the Gatineau region. "We have to be there," he says. "It's more or less looking west, so they have a view of what's going on in Ontario and the rest of Canada, which is important for us." Voters noted Cain Lamarre's strong regional coverage. "The firm is truly everywhere in the province of Quebec," remarked one respondent. Another credited the firm for "excellent service with reasonable fees." 4 Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon LLP Total Lawyers: 88 Lawyers By Office: Montreal, 85; Longueuil, 3 Core Practice Areas: corporate, commercial, and financ- ing; commercial and civil litigation; taxation and estate planning; insurance; intellectual property Key Clients: insurance companies; manufacturers; finan- cial institutions; retailers, licensors, and franchisors Notable Mandates: counsel to clients involved in nation- al and international mid-market transactions; involved in a leading case relating to oppression remedies avail- able to shareholders of Quebec companies; class action suits relating to breast cancer and contaminated blood Star Alumni: Quebec Superior Court Justice Pierre Jasmin Affiliations: TerraLex Inc. The Firm: This new firm was spawned on Jan. 1 of this year through the merger of Lapointe Rosenstein and Marchand Melançon Forget. Three of the four found- ing members of Lapointe Rosenstein — Brahm Gelfand, Alexander Konigsberg, and Mark Rosenstein — continue to practise law with the merged firm. So too do a pair of Marchand Melançon Forget's founding members, Paul Melançon and Michel Marchand. "They always take my referrals; are reasonably priced and [offer] excellent service," said one voter. "Very pleas- ant to work with." Another commented that the firm "probably has the best and deepest commercial group of attorneys on the list, backed up by a solid insurance and commercial litigation group." Norman Rishikof, a member of the firm's executive committee, says each practice group is firing on all cyl- inders, and there are no immediate plans to bulk up a specific service area. www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com JULY 2010 39 (clcw .ca) (lrmm.com)