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Jean-François Landry
Partner
Key practice areas
Insurance and Reinsurance, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Extraordinary Remedies, Professional Liability, Professional Law
Jean-François Landry handles all aspects of civil and commercial litigation. He focuses his practice on all areas of professional liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, insurance coverage disputes, and administrative law.
He is also called upon to intervene in files involving injunctions, seizures and other extraordinary remedies.
Jean-François’s representative work includes:
Professional liability
- Successfully represented an engineering firm in a claim for $15.4 million in damages following an explosion.
- Represented various professionals, including lawyers, architects, land surveyors, real estate brokers, evaluators, notaries and engineers, in a variety of professional liability lawsuits.
Insurance law
- Represented various insurers in coverage disputes involving the interpretation of insurance policies, particularly those used in the construction industry.
Administrative law – Professional orders – Extraordinary remedies
- Successfully represented professional orders, particularly in injunctive proceedings brought against their disciplinary bodies.
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch – Insurance Law, 2024-2026
- Centre Philou, Member of the Board of Directors, since 2025
- Bar of Montréal, Member of the Integration of Technologies Committee, since 2023
- The Advocates’ Society, Member, since 2021
- Collège Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière's Bouchard Foundation, Director, since 2020
- Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Member of the Coordination Committee of Theatre Supporters, 2017-2019
- Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2015
- Co-author: “Chronique – L'application de la doctrine du forum non conveniens en matière d'action collective au Québec” [Application of the forum non conveniens doctrine in Québec Class Actions], Repères, November 2024, EYB2024REP3808.
- Co-author: “Professional inspections: A decision of interest to professional orders”, November 4, 2024.
- Co-author: “Qualified immunity in professional law: a strong ground for dismissal”, August 18, 2022.
- Author: “Completed operations hazard coverage in a wrap-up policy”, September 16, 2020.
- Co-author: “Professional Liability – the Risks of Offering Advice Beyond the Scope of One’s Mandate”, March 5, 2019.
- Co-author: “Canada: Quebec: A Warning on the Scope of a Lawyer's Duty to Advise”, Mondaq, March 24, 2017.
- Author: “Supreme Court of Canada Helps National Class Actions Become More Manageable”, CanLII Connects, CanLII, October 26, 2016.
- Co-author: “Responsabilité civile des arpenteurs-géomètres” [Civil liability of land surveyors], in JurisClasseur Québec, vol. “Responsabilité civile et professionnelle”, fasc. 30, Montréal, LexisNexis, 2015.
- Co-speaker : Inspection professionnelle : les valeurs et la prise de décision [Professional inspection: values and decision-making], as part of the workshop Ordres professionnels : quelles valeurs encadrent vos décisions?, Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, October 10 and 16, 2024.
- Co-speaker: L’abus de procédure et la gestion des litiges, survol des principes de procédure applicables et de leur implication en matière de gestion des instances [Abuse of procedure and litigation management: an overview of applicable procedural principles and their implications for case management], as part of a workshop morning in insurance law, Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, May 1, 2024.
- Co-speaker: De la théorie à la pratique : comment les ordres peuvent-ils concilier la réflexion et l’action pour s’assurer de mettre en place des bonnes pratiques de gestion de l’ordre et d’encadrement des professionnels? [From theory to practice: how can orders reconcile reflection and action to ensure that they put in place good practices for managing the order and supervising professionals?], Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, October 12 and 18, 2023.
- Co-speaker: Interprétation des polices d’assurances [Interpretation of insurance policies], Association des conseillers juridiques d’entreprise, Québec Chapter, webinar, November 7, 2022
- Co-speaker: L’hypothèque légale de la construction et sa substitution par une autre sûreté suffisante [The legal construction hypothec and its substitution with another security], Langlois Knowledge, Québec City, October 25, 2022.
- Co-speaker: Quels risques doivent surveiller les ordres professionnels en 2022-2023? Saurez-vous naviguer entre les écueils? [What risks should professional orders be watching out for in 2022-2023? Can you navigate through the pitfalls?], Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, October 5 and 12, 2022.
- Co-speaker: Admission de la preuve extrinsèque lorsqu’il y a obligation de l’assureur de défendre [Admission of extrinsic evidence where there is an insurer’s duty to defend], as part of the Formations en droit des assurances workshop series, Langlois Knowledge, Montréal, March 11, 2020.
- Speaker: L’élasticité du lien de causalité en responsabilité civile professionnelle au Québec [The elasticity of the causal link in Québec’s professional liability law], Cercle de l’assurance de dommages, Montréal, November 7, 2018.
LL.M., with Merit, Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, England, 2016
J.D., Dalhousie University, 2014
LL.L., University of Ottawa, 2013
B.Soc.Sc., University of Ottawa, 2013