August 29th, 2024
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Lana Rackovic
Lawyer
Key practice areas
Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Private International Law, Internal and Regulatory Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Defence, Constitutional Law, Financial Institutions and Financial Services Law
Lana Rackovic is a lawyer in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. She advises and represents organizations and businesses in an array of civil and commercial disputes relating to administrative and constitutional law, access to information, banking law, competition law, consumer protection, as well as in class actions, at trial and on appeal.
Lana regularly advises clients on the compliance of their activities, operations and business practices. She also helps defend businesses and individuals in administrative investigations.
Before joining the firm, Lana worked for the federal government and as a research assistant for the Peter MacKell Chair on Federalism at McGill University.
She practises law in English and French, and also speaks fluent Serbian.
As part of her practice, Lana:
- advises a financial institution on the compliance of orders issued in connection with extraordinary remedies;
- advises and represents a technology and social media company in connection with civil liability suits and extraordinary orders;
- represents clients and businesses in connection with administrative investigations by regulatory authorities;
- represents financial institutions and corporations in class actions involving competition and consumer law;
- represents a telecommunications business in a lawsuit brought by a competitor;
- participated in representing associations of judges before their respective compensation committees;
- represents an administrative judge in an investigation before the Conseil de la justice administrative;
- advises telecommunications enterprises in regulatory matters and on the compliance of their commercial practices;
- participated in representing a group of judges regarding the constitutionality of article 35 C.C.P. before the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Corporate and Commercial Litigation, 2025
- Canadian Bar Association, Vice-President of the Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section, since 2021
- Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2019
- Co-author: “The importance of Charter values in the absence of the infringement of a constitutional right or freedom”, March 1, 2024.
- Co-Author: “Enquête interne et fraude : la protection de privilèges dans le cadre de recours extraordinaires” [Internal audit and fraud: Privilege protection with respect to extraordinary remedies], Développements récents en enquêtes internes et réglementaires, Vol. 502, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2021, p. 89.
- Co-author: “A step towards the right to be forgotten: a developing story”, July 22, 2021.
- Co-author: “Does settlement privilege apply when settling a dispute with a public body?”, May 19, 2021.
- Co-author: “Peace, order, good government and… climate change: the Supreme Court articulates the constitutional doctrine of the national concern”, April 16, 2021.
- Co-author: "Commentaire sur la décision Partner Reinsurance Company Ltd. c. Optimum Réassurance Inc. – La compétence internationale des tribunaux québécois en matière d’interprétation contractuelle" [Case comment – Partner Reinsurance Company Ltd. v. Optimum Réassurance Inc. – The international competence of Québec Courts in terms of contractual interpretation], Repères, June 2020, EYB2020REP3079.
- Co-author: “International jurisdiction of Quebec courts in matters of contractual interpretation: the Court of Appeal rules”, April 28, 2020.
- Co-author: “The Quebec Court of Appeal recognizes the right to publish a Mareva injunction”, April 2, 2020.
- Co-author: “Aggregate Damages in Québec Competition Class Action: Solving the Paradox”, Colloque national sur l’action collective, Développements récents au Québec, au Canada et aux États-Unis, Service de la qualité de la profession, Barreau du Québec, Vol. 480, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2020, p. 55.
- Co-speaker: Les règles de droit international privé applicables aux tribunaux administratifs du Québec : les enseignements récents de la Cour suprême du Canada dans l’affaire Sharp (2023 SCC 29) [The rules of private international law applicable to Québec administrative tribunals: recent teachings of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Sharp case (2023 SCC 29)], Journées stratégiques Droit disciplinaire et droit administratif, Open Forum Ouvert, Montréal, April 10, 2024.
- Co-speaker: Revue de la jurisprudence de l’année 2022 en droit constitutionnel [Case law review of the year 2022 in constitutional law], Canadian Bar Association, Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section, Montréal, April 21, 2023.
- Co-speaker: Développements récents en matière d’accès à l’information [Recent developments in access to information], Langlois Knowledge, webinar, January 19, 2023.
- Co-speaker: Revue de la jurisprudence de l’année 2021 en droit constitutionnel [Case law review of the year 2021 in constitutional law], Canadian Bar Association, Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section, webinar, April 12, 2022.
B.C.L/LL.B., McGill University, 2019
M.Sc., Université de Montréal, 2015
B.Soc.Sc., University of Ottawa, 2013