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Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP Total Lawyers: 74 Lawyers By Office: Montreal, 72; Hong Kong, 1; Beijing 1 Core Practice Areas: business; litiga- tion; insurance; transportation; labour Key Clients: Burger King Canada; National Bank of Canada; Fonds d'assurance-responsabilité profession- nelle de la Chambre des notaires du Québec; Stericycle; Renaissance Capital; Lloyd's Underwriters Notable Mandates: worked on a lev- eraged management buyout of a large manufacturing company, involving asset-backed conventional and subor- dinated credit facilities under various credit agreements; represented Quebec hospitals in various class action law- suits; worked for the former owner of the Montreal Forum in litigation against the Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. claiming rights, fees, and commissions under a sponsorship agreement mercial insurance and litigation lawyers who work effectively and achieve good results at a reasonable cost," said one voter. One respondent enthused that the firm "has by far the best insurance law department in Quebec." Looking forward, managing partner Quicklaw® 6 Charles Flam says he would like the firm to strengthen its presence in busi- ness law areas such as intellectual prop- erty. "I think our growth, which has his- torically been consistent and continued, will be that way," he says. "But I see us still as a mid-size firm." Research Solutions Quebec Doctrine on LexisNexis® Quicklaw® PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND ASSERT THE INTERESTS OF YOUR CLIENTS IN QUEBEC OR YOUR CLIENTS WITH DEALINGS IN QUEBEC WITH QUEBEC DOCTRINE. Star Alumni: David Shapiro, vice president and general counsel of Air Canada; Quebec Superior Court justices Francine Nantel and Lucie Fournier Affiliations: International Lawyers Network The Firm: Founded in 1921 by Benjamin Robinson and Joseph Shapiro. Until Claude-Armand Sheppard arrived at the firm in 1959, the firm primarily served an anglophone business clien- tele. It has diversified since the 1960s to become a full-service firm, with an increasing number of francophone cli- ents. Notably, sons of the firm's found- ing partners — Jonathan Robinson and Barry Shapiro — continue to practise at the firm. "It has an excellent mix of com- ntitled-1 1 Get Quicklaw access* to the JurisClasseur Québec encyclopedia, the LegisPratique collection, and other indispensable French-language texts and treatises from LexisNexis. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE. Call 1-800-255-5174, email sales@lexisnexis.ca or submit a web request at www.lexisnexis.ca/request-more-information. * Requires a Quicklaw account and a separate subscription. LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under licence. Quicklaw is a registered trademark of LexisNexis Canada Inc. © 2010 LexisNexis Canada Inc. All rights reserved. www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com JULY 2010 41 www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com JULY 2010 41 6/17/10 10:38:33 AM (rsslex.com)