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Pierre-Luc Desgagné, partner, and Émilie Audy, an associate, both at Langlois lawyers, recently published an article entitled “A ten-year look at Quebec’s corporate governance act” in which they provide an overview of the governance changes that have taken place on boards of directors of state-owned enterprises since the adoption of the Act respecting the Governance of State-owned Enterprises in 2006, as well as an assessment of what remains to be accomplished to achieve greater diversity, particularly on the boards of private-sector corporations.

Benchmark Canada 2017 Recognizes 19 Litigators from Langlois
In addition to having placed Langlois Lawyers in the Recommended category, the prestigious directory of leading litigation lawyers in Canada, Benchmark Litigation – Benchmark Canada has just published its annual rankings, which include 19 litigators from the firm. For Langlois Lawyers, this is a record number of inclusions in this select category.

Mylany David, partner, and Adèle Poirier, lawyer, both at Langlois Lawyers, recently delivered a professional development session entitled “The Commercial Lease: a two-step drafting process” on four separate occasions.

Langlois lawyers is proud to be contributing as a partner to the success of the 37th edition of the Soirée de gala Les Mercuriades business competition awards ceremony, to be held on April 24th at the Palais des congrès, Montreal’s convention centre.

Stefan Chripounoff, partner in the litigation group at Langlois Lawyers, recently published an article entitled “Domestic arbitration law gets harmonizing upgrade” in which he provides an overview of the revised Uniform Arbitration Act, a model law adopted by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) in December 2016.

Vincent de l’Étoile will be a panellist at the upcoming Quebec Bar conference on class actions, to be held on March 23 and 24 at the Palais des congrès, the Montreal convention centre.