This section keeps you up-to-date on the latest news and upcoming public appearances of Lavery professionals.
News
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Marc Beauchemin and André Vautour participate in a conference on regulatory conformity for the financial services
On December 1, Marc Beauchemin and André Vautour participated in the Canadian Institute’s 2nd conference on regulatory compliance for financial services. Held at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the conference was on the requirements of additional examinations by regulatory authorities.Mr. Beauchemin and Mr. Vautour’s presentation, called “Gérer les risques inhérents à l’impartition à toutes les étapes de la relation avec le fournisseur” (Managing risks from outsourcing in all the steps of a relationship with a supplier), discussed many factors that represent challenges when outsourcing as well as practical methods to use in an outsourcing agreement.
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Jean Saint-Onge, Chair of the Board of Fondation Marie-Vincent, appears in Cyberpresse
Jean Saint-Onge, partner at Lavery and Chair of the Marie-Vincent Fondation, in the presence of other members of the Foundation, including Claude Mongeau, CN President and Chief Executive Office and honorary president of the 2011 fundraising campaign, last November to announce that this campaign helped raise 1,350,000 dollars to benefit children under 12 who are victims of abuse, notably sexual abuse. For the past 35 years, the Foundation has raised funds to support prevention, education, and aid initiatives for children and their families. Cyberpresse spoke of this successful campaign on its website. The full article (in French only) is available by clicking here.
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Lavery welcomes Carolina Manganelli, Aboriginal Law Lawyer
Lavery is pleased to welcome Carolina Manganelli to the Administrative and Regulatory Law Group in the firm’s Montreal offices. Ms. Manganelli practises in the areas of aboriginal law, environmental law, energy and natural resources, mining law and government affairs.She has extensive expertise in aboriginal law, constitutional law and human rights, and previously worked for several years at the Department of Justice of Canada, in the Aboriginal Affairs Portfolio, most recently as Executive Assistant in the office of the Assistant Deputy Attorney General. From 2000 to 2002, she participated in several international missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Manganelli has pleaded before several administrative tribunals as well as the Superior Court and Court of Appeal of Quebec. She has also represented clients before both the Quebec and Canadian Human Rights Commissions as well as the Police Ethics Commissioner.Ms. Manganelli holds an LL.M. in human rights law with an award of "Merit" from University College London, in London, United Kingdom, and received her LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University in 2000. She also obtained a B.A. in sociology, with a minor in Canadian ethnic studies, with distinction, from McGill in 1996. Ms. Manganelli has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2005.She speaks fluent English, French, Italian and Greek, as well as Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
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Dina Raphaël and Nathalie Durocher, Speakers on risk management for the financial sector
On November 16 and 17, Dina Raphaël, partner at Lavery, and Nathalie Durocher, lawyer at Lavery, were speakers at the 4th edition of the “Conformité et gestion des risques pour les marchés financiers” conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. Ms. Raphaël and Ms. Durocher’s presentation was called “Changement de culture : ligne directrice proposée par l’Autorité des marchés financiers à l’égard des assureurs en matière de pratiques commerciales” (Change of Culture : Proposed Guidelines from the Autorité des marchés financiers for insurers in regards to commercial practices).
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Cocktail Lavery 2011
Some 175 people attended Lavery’s annual cocktail that was held in the modern, industrial surroundings of the Panoramic Hall at the Montréal Science Centre on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Véronique Morin Gives a Lecture at the Certified Human Resources Advisors’ Congress
The professional corporation of Quebec’s human resources managers, the Ordre des Conseillers en ressources humaines (CRHA), invited Véronique Morin to give a talk at the International Congress of Francophone HR managers, the theme of which was Innovation and Creativity. Over 1500 people attended the event, which took place in Quebec City last October 17 and 18. Ms Morin’s lecture was titled “Employment contracts: innovating in order to recruit and retain employees”.
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The Right to Privacy and the Protection of Personal Information in a Claims Process
October 26 and 27, 2011, at the Lavery Conference CentreToday, insurers must deal with increasingly stringent rules in terms of privacy and the protection of personal information. What are these rules, and how can insurers avoid them from becoming major stumbling blocks when processing a claim? Over 80 people attended lectures on this topic byMarie-Andrée Gagnon (liability, damage insurance, and personal insurance) and Loïc Berdnikoff (administrative law, personal information, and privacy) at the Lavery Conference Centre, last October 26 and 27. During the event, participants were particularly encouraged to get acquainted with the various legislative schemes that apply to insurers and to third parties they are liable to interact with, and they received much practical advice about accessing the required records and information when processing a claim.
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Seminar on the e-Distribution of Insurance Products
Last October 13, several persons involved in the compliance and distribution of financial products and services attended a Lavery Seminar titled “e-distribution of insurance products”, about present issues in the online distribution of insurance products.Lawyers who are active in the practice group on the Distribution of Financial Products and Services talked about the concerns that the use of new technologies presently generate in the insurance industry, with the special participation of Eric Stevenson, manager of distribution practices at the AMF.
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Jean-Simon Deschênes wins JCI Canada’s Award of the Most Outstanding Senator
JCI Canada (Junior Chamber International Canada) recently awarded Jean-Simon Deschênes the prestigious award of Most Outstanding Canadian Senator for 2011.JCI Canada is an affiliate of the Junior Chamber International, a world federation of young entrepreneurs and business leaders. JCI Canada comprises some 35 chapters that are active in communities from one ocean to another and are made up of young individuals who want to bring about positive change within themselves, their community and the world.
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Lavery becomes the first Canadian member of the Lease Enforcement Attorney Network (LEAN)
Lavery, through it partner Benjamin David Gross, was invited to become, and has recently become, a member of LEAN, a comprehensive network of lawyers specialising in leasing law. LEAN and its clients can now count on the assistance of Lavery’s team in negotiating, drafting or registering their Quebec leases, as well as in enforcement matters related thereto. Founded in 1999, LEAN is a non profit association of carefully selected law firms distinguished by an excellent reputation in the industry and long and broad experience in leasing. In order to meet the growing need for effective enforcement counsel, the Lease Enforcement Attorney Network continues to add experienced, reputable law firms to its list of members. LEAN is present in 37 locations in the Unites States and Lavery is its first Canadian member. More about LEAN.
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LAVERY CONFERENCE - Risk Management: Employment Contracts, Compensation and Pension Plans of Non-Unionized Employees
On September 27, 2011, 140 corporate counsel attended this Lavery Conference held (in French) at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal.The day started with a plenary session entitled “Blogs and social media: New issues" followed by workshops on the following subjects: Aspects of employment contracts: Constraints and precautions Reporting and complaints of harassment in the workplace Excess benefit plans: Issues to consider Tax treatment of the various components of compensation and severance pay Inquiries and inspections by public authorities: Scope of their powers and measures to take in response Issues to be negotiated and verified with respect to employment contracts and pension plans in the context of a proposed purchase and saleOur guest speakers, Suzanne Ménard and Stéphane Paré, of AON Hewitt, then led the plenary session on the theme of “Employment proposal and generations: A matter of flexibility".This activity was recognized by the Quebec Bar for purposes of the mandatory continuing education of lawyers.
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Pierre L. Baribeau is elected to the Board of the Quebec Lung Association
Mr. Pierre L. Baribeau, partner at Lavery, was newly elected Administrator and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Lung Association. This not-for-profit organisation, which has 80,000 members, is dedicated to promoting respiratory health and preventing lung disease–particularly tuberculosis and asthma–through research, education and services. Let us mention that Mr. Baribeau has recently been re-elected on the Boards of Directors of three other organisations: as Administrator and President of the Board of Boscoville 2000, a well known centre dedicated to children and young people, and to the Quebec and Inuit communities; as Administrator and Secretary of the Foundation of l'Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, a major hospital centre affiliated with the Université de Montréal, and; as Administrator of the Corporation of Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential School Settlement (CCEPIRSS).