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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 8 39 Total lawyers: 60 Lawyers by office: Quebec City, 60 (plus four notaries) Core practice areas and notable mandates: corporate law and financing; commercial law; securities; civil and professional liability; insurance; labour and employment law; real estate; class actions in defence including professional liability, intellectual property and pub- lic health; disciplinary law; bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring; commercial litigation Key clients: AIG, Bridgestone Canada Inc., BDC Capital, Chartis, Desjardins Venture Capital, Fonds des architectes, Groupe Le Massif, Manac, National Bank of Canada, Prelco, Roynat Inc., Université Laval, WSP Canada Star alumni: Quebec Superior Court Justices Marie-Paule Gagnon, Lise Bergeron, Jean-Francois Émond, Jacques Blanchard and Alicia Soldevila; Quebec Court Justices Jean Asselin and Geneviève Cotnam; former CBA president Paule Gauthier; for- mer Quebec premier Jean Lesage; former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Affiliations: Risk Management Counsel of Canada and Geneva Group International The firm: Stein Monast LLP is the successor of Stein Monast Pratte & Marseille, a Quebec City firm that was founded in 1957. It partnered with Montreal's Desjardins Ducharme from 1992 to 2007 and is now operating from its Quebec City offices throughout the province of Quebec. "Reputation and excellence in service standards plus reasonable fees." "They have excellent attorneys working for them, a very good reputation and enviable clients." "Responsiveness." Total lawyers: 90 Lawyers by office: Montreal, 87; Saguenay, 3 Core practice areas and notable mandates: business law; litiga- tion; insurance law; transportation law; family law The firm represented the Uniprix drugstore network and its shareholders for the sale of the second largest pharmacy chain in Quebec (approx. 375 stores, 4000 employees, revenues in excess of $1.6B) to McKesson Canada. Key clients: AJW Technique Inc., Taylor Swift The firm assisted AJW Technique Inc., the Montreal-based maintenance hub for the AJW Group's aviation component repair and overhaul service, in the renewal of its unsecured revolving loan from the Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec. The firm is involved in the provision of ongoing monitoring of the Canadian portfolio of entertainer Taylor Swift as well as the representation of an international high-tech corporation involved in a joint venture structured fund relating to a multi-million- dollar financing deal. The firm represented Uniprix Inc. before the Supreme Court of Canada in a matter dealing with the inter- pretation of a renewal clause in an affiliation agreement. The firm successfully opposed an application for interim injunction seeking to bar the payment by a Canadian bank of sums under a performance guarantee for an engineering contract carried out in Poland. The firm successfully challenged the validity of an Anton Piller order based on the alleged illegal use of the plaintiff 's intellectual property in the satellite communications industry. The firm defended class actions against a national retailer having allegedly failed to abide by the low prices stated in its ads and against a manufacturer alleged to have sold defective home appliances. The firm defended the mayors of several cities against libel claims. The firm was involved in a recent retention in a product lia- bility matter involving overall litigation in excess of $750 million with respect to the construction of conveyers and related equip- ment in a mine located in Northern Quebec. Star alumni: Philippe-André Tessier, vice president of the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Commission Affiliations: International Lawyers Network and Canadian Litiga- tion Counsel The firm: Benjamin Robinson and Joseph Shapiro founded RSS in 1921. Their sons Jonathan Robinson and Barry Shapiro still prac- tise 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. "It has the greatest range of excellence in many fields such as insurance, family law and commercial transactions and litigation." "Full service provided by exceptional lawyers in many areas of practice." STEIN MONAST STEINMONAST.CA 6 7 TOP 10 QUEBEC REGIONAL FIRMS ROBINSON SHEPPARD SHAPIRO LLP RSSLEX.COM