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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m M A R C H 2 0 1 6 33 Total lawyers: 84 Lawyers by office: Montreal, 84 Core practice areas: Business law; litigation; insurance law; transportation law; family law Key clients: Prefers not to identify any clients Notable mandates: Robinson Sheppard represented the sell- ers in the sale of Dicom Transportation Group, a major business-to-business transportation company, to a Chica- go-based private equity fund. In Maynard c. Legault Joly Thiffault s.e.n.c.r.l., the firm successfully defended a law firm against a $55-million claim based on its alleged negligence in the implementation of a tax structure. In Regroupement des citoyens du secteur des constellations c. Lévis (Ville de), it is defending a firm specialized in ground condition stud- ies in a class action against a municipality for having issued building permits on an unstable tract of land. In Ste-Marie c. Desjardins Assurances générales, the firm is counsel to the president of Desjardins, the largest co-operative financial group in Canada with assets of $229 billion, against what it calls a "vexatious personal suit launched to claim an insur- ance compensation." In addition, the firm is representing some 15 European investors whose claims total more than $300 million in a massive case arising from the professional liability of auditors in the Castor Holdings case. Star alumni: David Shapiro, senior VP and chief legal officer of Air Canada; Jean-François Fortin, executive director of enforcement at Autorité des marchés financiers; Superior Court of Quebec justices France Dulude, François Duprat, Lucie Fournier, Karen Jodoin, and Francine Nantel Affiliations: International Lawyers Network and Canadian Litigation Counsel The firm: Benjamin Robinson and Joseph Shapiro founded RSS in 1921. Their sons Jonathan Robinson and Barry Shap- iro still practise at RSS. Until the arrival of Claude-Armand Sheppard in 1959, the firm served a primarily Anglophone clientele, which included such important corporations as Steinberg and Hunter Douglas. Since the early 1960s, the firm has diversified to become a full-service law firm with an ever-increasing number of important Francophone and Quebec-based business clients. Growth, while constant and continuing, has come mostly through recruitment of the province's best law students, the firm says. A survey respon- dent observed "a great culture of quality and good leader- ship" at the firm. ROBINSON SHEPPARD SHAPIRO LLP RSSLEX.COM 5 degrandprechait.com Your Regional Partner in Quebec A dynamic, full-service law firm of 73 lawyers providing legal services and business advice to clients since 1928. Consistently ranked by Canadian Lawyer magazine in the Top 10 regional law firms in the Province of Quebec. Untitled-3 1 2016-02-09 3:30 PM