Areas of practice and Specialties

DUBÉ LATREILLE is a litigation firm. Although the firm specializes in civil liability and medical malpractice, its members have gained over the years a strong experience in various areas of the Law, answering the needs of clients that include small and medium enterprises, businessmen and women, professionals and individuals from all walks of life.

Civil Liability: Compensation for personal injuries and material damages resulting from any and all types of accidents: falls, sport incidents, collisions, and resulting generally from any and all civil or tortuous faults, whatever their nature, etc.;
Medical and Professional Liability: Compensation for damages resulting from civil faults or malpractice be they committed by hospitals, physicians, doctors, nurses and other professionals and/or agents such as notaries, accountants, lawyers, bankers, brokers, real estate agents, travel agents and other intermediaries, etc.;
Transgression of rights protected by the Charters: Recourses for slander, defamation, transgression of dignity and privacy, for the violation of the right to private property and health, and to obtain punitive and exemplary damages, etc.;
Family Law: Divorce, child custody, alimony, partition of family patrimony, parentage, alimony revision, drafting of separation and divorce agreements, recourses between de facto spouses, settlement conferences, etc.;
Capacities and Persons: Implementation of protective supervision in cases of incapacity, tutorship, curatorship, mandates in case of incapacity, etc.;
Trust and Estate Law: Replacement of liquidators and trustees due to wrongful conduct, appointment of liquidators, request for modification of testamentary trusts, estate settlements, estate inventories, planning and management, probate of wills, recourses to set aside wills, etc.;
Commercial Disputes: Recourses in oppression, contract implementation, disputes between shareholders and\or partners, recourses in Arbitration, corporate winding-up, breach of non-competition or non-solicitation clauses, breach of confidentiality, commercial leases, injunctions, safeguard orders, seizures before judgment, etc.;
Contract Law: Breach of contracts, compensation for damages resulting from breach, drafting and revision of commercial contracts (commercial leases, service contracts, sale of businesses, sale of shares, etc.);
Corporate Law: Incorporations (federal or provincial), preparation of corporate minutes and resolutions, drafting of shareholders' agreements, corporate dissolutions, winding-up;
Labor Law: Dismissals, recourses for severance pay, harassment in the workplace, breach of employment contracts, duty of loyalty, duty of confidentiality and non–competition clauses, etc.;
Property Law: Co-ownership law, relationship between co-owners, easements, encroachments and private nuisances, inscriptions on public registry, sureties, liens, legal and conventional mortgages, etc.;
Real Estate Law: Recourses for latent defects, preparation and perusal of offers to purchase, relations with real estate agents, commission payments, deeds of sale, hypothecs and mortgages, inscription and radiation of rights at the Public Registry Office, giving-in-payments, conversion of dwellings into divided co-ownership, etc.;