Nathalie Bénard
ParalegalNathalie Bénard is a paralegal at the firm's Montréal office. She specializes in civil litigation, insurance and construction law.
Nathalie drafts correspondence and pleadings, organizes files, summarizes examinations, expert reports and other documents, and verifies pre-undertakings and undertakings made during out-of-court examinations. She also makes enquiries, analyzes files and readies them for trial, assists lawyers with trial preparation, finalizes settlements and prepares bills of costs. She drafts Small Claims Court pleadings for clients and assists them, prepares quantum assessments, timelines and authorizations to obtain medical (or other) records, and handles access-to-information requests. She also prepares trial timetables, trial briefs and books of authorities.
In addition, Nathalie performs searches in the Land Register and in search engines such as CAIJ, Azimut, the Québec Enterprise Register, Industry Canada (bankruptcy and insolvency files) and CanLII.
She has been a Commissioner for Oaths since 1985.
Law Certificate, Université de Montréal, 1990