Best Law Firms in Canada for Technology Law

An Exceptional Record of Achievement
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon is one of the largest independent law firms in Quebec, the result of the January 1st, 2010 merger of two well-established firms, Lapointe Rosenstein and Marchand Melançon Forget.

The firm is comprised of nearly 70 lawyers and professionals, specializing in a wide variety of practice areas: commerce, insurance, banking and finance, environment, resources and energy, bankruptcy and insolvency, tax, franchising, real estate, international transactions, licensing and technology, civil and commercial litigation, class actions, intellectual property, Trusts and Estages, as well as labour and employment. The firm can also count on the expertise of a number of other professionals such as notaries, advisors and translators.

For over 50 years, Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon and its predecessor firms have been fulfilling their clients expectations for expertise, availability and reliability without compromising their high standards of professional service, always promptly and efficiently delivered.

We have also actively sought out and developed an international practice in order to better serve our clients in the face of increasing globalization and market expansion. Our membership in TerraLex®, an international organization of attorneys in over 100 countries, gives us access to a worldwide network of legal and other business advisors.

We are multilingual, multicultural and come from a variety of backgrounds. As such, we reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of Montreal, one-third of our attorneys being first or second generation Canadians. We are open to the world, offering services in more than twelve languages.

Pitblado LLP has become one of Western Canada's leading law firms by providing exceptional services to businesses and business people, locally, nationally and internationally. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba the firm combines the traditions of Pitblado & Hoskin, formed in 1882, with the entrepreneurial spirit of Buchwald Asper Gallagher Henteleff, founded in 1970. We are proud of our heritage but the future is our business.

Through our affiliation with Meritas, a global affiliation of law firms, we can help extend your reach and enhance your success in all matters of law and local custom in Manitoba and Canada from answering the simplest of questions to providing full representation on the most complex of matters. We work seamlessly with you or your legal counsel or other professional advisors to meet your business needs.

Pitblado represents large and small, local, national and international, publicly traded and private companies and their owners and managers. Federal, provincial and municipal governments and regulatory bodies, financial institutions and asset managers, health care authorities, institutions and practitioners and many non-profit organizations routinely engage our firm for help on important issues. Pitblado's lawyers are recognized not only for the quality and innovation of their legal solutions, but also for their extraordinary commitment to community. This variety of experience has enabled the members of the firm to develop not only a unique perspective of how business works best but also a valuable network of contacts in law, business and government across the country.

We deal with all aspects and areas of business law:

- the structure and governance of business organizations and relationships to accommodate not only legal and tax systems but also the realities of tomorrow's global business environment;
-commercial litigation; our litigators have extensive court room experience provincial and federal courts alike. We are specialists in insurance, construction, health, transportation and telecommunications, media and sports and entertainment. We are effective in the formal confines of court and the industry specifics of administrative tribunals. Our lawyers represent businesses, insurers, banks, shareholders, professionals and governments in all facets of commercial contract breaches and disputes.
-M&A, financing and investment, IT, restructuring, trade, property, succession, labour and employment and traditional and alternate dispute resolution and interest representation.

First we listen then we become an effective part of your team. We can protect your interests in all courts and administrative and regulatory tribunals with "we need it NOW" responsiveness. We bring an understanding of how industries are evolving in traditional fields such as agriculture, banking, real estate and transportation as well as in cutting-edge sectors like communications and media, information and intellectual property and technology, health, sports, environment and global trade and commerce. We encourage settlement and practice mediation and arbitration, but we understand that sometimes you need to draw a line.

For more information or to contact us, please visit us at www.pitblado.com