Yves Lauzon Ad.E
Telephone: 514 844-4646
Fax: 514 844-7009
E-mail: ylauzon@lblavocats.ca
Mr. Lauzon received his diploma in law from Université de Montréal in 1972 and was admitted to the Québec Bar in 1974. Mr. Lauzon is involved in the area of class actions since the coming into force of this procedure in 1979, as lawyer for the Fonds d'aide aux recours collectif first and then in private practice.
Languages
French and english
Training
Admitted to the Québec Bar (1974)
Professional affiliations
Member of the Québec Bar
Member of the Canadian Bar Association
Disctinctions
Mr. Lauzon was awarded the title of Avocat émérite by the Québec Bar Association. This distinction underlines the excellence of his professional career, his exceptional influence on his social environment having reflected on his profession and his acknowledged integrity.
Mr. Lauzon was also featured on the list of best lawyers of Montréal according to Best Lawyers in Canada 2012.
Conferences
Mr. Lauzon has participated in many conferences, symposiums and committees on class actions for 25 years on a regular basis and has been a speaker at many conferences in Canada and abroad.
He was invited as an expert witness before a French Government committee whose mandate it was to make recommendations on the adoption of a law on collective actions
in Paris.
Publications
Recours collectif, Gérald R. Tremblay, c.r. (co-author), collection Aide-Mémoire,
no. 104,1st edition, 1988.
Le recours collectif québécois, Louise Ducharme (co-author), Les éditions
Yvon Blais Inc., 1988.
Le recours collectif, (Points de droit), Les Éditions Yvon Blais Inc., 2001.
La classe nationale: Critères d'autorisation in Développement récent sur les recours collectifs, Service de la formation permanente du Barreau du Québec, 2005, volume 232, pages 35 to 53.