Torys’ Montréal office specializes in litigation, including class action and product liability litigation. Litigation partner Sylvie Rodrigue, leads the office with extensive, high-profile class action experience. Our practice in Montréal seamlessly serves common and civil law matters and is well supported by our national litigation team and through our expertise in a wide range of practice areas.

The cross-border and international range of Torys’ broad class actions experience in key industries is a foundational support to our Montréal office’s industry specialties, which include Financial Services, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial and Manufacturing and Technology. Our class actions practice includes advising clients on Canadian aspects of U.S. class actions, and providing expert opinion evidence in U.S. class actions concerning various aspects of Canadian law.

Canadian class actions are typically commenced in multiple provinces, including in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction. In addition to full mobility in all other provinces, our team includes lawyers called to multiple Bars including in Quebec, which allows us to offer one team to our clients to defend these matters. The result is a seamless, cost efficient approach to the litigation strategy.