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Julie-Martine Loranger is a partner in Gowlings’ Montréal office and former head of its advocacy department from 2000 to 2007. Her practice focuses on commercial, civil and securities litigation, dismissal of executives, class action, construction law, insurance and professional liability such as that of engineers, architects and various stakeholders of financial services, as well as directors’ liability.
Since 2001, she has been a member of Montréals' office Management Committee. On August 10, 2009, Julie-Martine was appointed as a director representing the consumer within the Board of Directors of the Chambre de l'assurance de dommages by Minister of Finance Mr. Raymond Bachand, for a three-year mandate.
Julie-Martine has acted before courts of all jurisdictions including the Supreme Court of Canada, the Québec Court of Appeal, the Superior Court and various regulators, arbitrators and mediators. Julie-Martine has acted in the following class action matters:
- representing and acting for banks and credit lessors in class actions involving allegation of misrepresentation, fraud / scheme and breach of the consumer protection legislation. She was involved in contesting certification of class action up to the court of appeal level and in negotiation of various settlements;
- representing two financial institutions in a class action with respect to financial product offered as creditor proof which turned out the be seizable;
- representing financial institutions in relation with IPO and secondary market claims;
- acting for financial institutions that lent money to investors for purpose of various leverage investments;
- representing directors (D&O) and obtained a discontinuance of class action proceedings for alleged failure of their duties as directors;
- representing pharmaceutical companies (manufacturers and distributors) in product liability class action. Some allegations were related to failure to disclose and to warn about risk, defective product and false advertising;
- acting on behalf of a computer company defending product liability, breach of consumer protection legislation and contestation with respect to arbitration clause;
- defending recourses based on false publicity, breach of consumer law;
- advising on environmental class action;
- advising mutual fund distributor in market timing class action proceedings.
Julie-Martine regularly speaks on liability, ethics and compliance issues to investment advisors, representatives from various financial institutions, lawyers and insurers. She has taught attorneys on advocacy and evidence techniques at a seminar hosted by the Canadian Bar Association and also coaches various financial advisors on how to manage their business and protect themselves, as well as teaching branch managers and compliance officers on their duty to supervise.
Conferences
- Class actions: defense strategies / pressure tools and reform of the Québec Companies Act, Gowlings’ Business law Seminars, Montréal, February 16 and 24, 2010, Maison du Gouverneur
- Securities class actions and financial advisors’ liability – external and internal view, micro-seminar on securities litigation, Canadian Bar Association, Montréal, February 12, 2010, Loews Vogue Hotel
- Robert’s challenges (recent developments on the advisor’s duties and responsibilities), The Insurance Journal, 2009 Insurance and Investment Congress, Montréal, November 13, 2009, Montréal Congress Centre
- The advisor’s challenges: a trilogy (what clients, tribunals and self-regulating bodies expect from the advisor), IIIROC, breakfast seminar, Montréal, November 12, 2009, Club St. James
- Effective Consumer Protection: Are Class Actions the Best Vehicle? University of Montréal, 39th Annual Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law – October 16 & 17, 2009 at the Quebec Court House of Appeal
- Be prepared to ride the storm, Partenaires financiers Richardson Limitée, Montréal, January 29, and February 3, 2009
- Volatility of Market and risk management, Various financial Services providers (RBC / Scotia), Montréal, January 29, and February 3, 2009
- Class Actions Proceedings in Canada, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA), 20th annual meeting, Quebec City – August 2008
- Governance & Directors' Liability, Encon Insurance Group, April 2008
- From the other side of the fence: Emerging issues, Investment Dealers Association, October 20, 2007
- Obligations and liabilities of brokerage firms and representatives of a self-regulating organization, Canadian Institute, Sept. 26, 2007, Loews Vogue Hotel, Montréal
- Branch Managers Duty to Supervise, RBC Dominion Securities, April 2007
- Managing disclosure and vital communication through the regulatory investigation process in relation with investment dealers and their registered representatives, Osgoode Hall Law, York University, Understanding and Managing Regulatory Investigations (Continuing Legal Education course), April 23, 2007
- Recent decisions and developments analysis: How to reconcile jurisprudence and what are the new trends, Canadian Institute Conference on Directors’ Liability, Dec. 6 & 7, 2006, Marriott Château Champlain, Montréal
- Gatekeepers (in collaboration with Me Pascale Elharrar, vice-president and legal counsel, BMO Nesbitt Burns), Insight, Securities Brokers and Managers Regulation, Oct. 18, 2006, Inter-Continental Hotel, Montréal
- Managing the expansion of Corporate counsel liability exposure (in collaboration with other attorneys from Gowlings), Canadian Corporate Counsels Association, 18th Annual Meeting, August 15, 2006, Fairmont St. John’s, Newfoundland
- “Consumer” arbitration and collective arbitration in Québec, University of Montréal, Maximilien-Caron Day, Justice in Action : from Class Action to Collective Arbitration, March 31, 2006, Hilton Bonaventure Montréal
- New trends in directors’ personal liability and remedies against them: how to avoid heavy penalties (in collaboration with Honorable Martin Cauchon, Senior partner at Gowlings), Canadian Institute, Conference on Directors’ Liability, Oct. 19 & 20, 2005
- Conflict of Interest (in collaboration with Me Pascale Elharrar), Insight, 2005
Furthermore, Julie-Martine has authored numerous articles published in Finance et Investissement, a newspaper distributed to the brokerage industry in Québec, and has co-written a paper on investment advisor’s liability for the Canadian Securities Institute’s continuing education program. At Gowlings, she is editor-in-chief of the newsletter Above Board @ Gowlings (and of its French version, Conseils Avisés @ Gowlings) and coaches various members of financial institutions on professional liability issues. Julie-Martine also provides expert advice through articles she authors for lesaffaires.com.
Julie-Martine is the author of two articles published in LesAffaires.com entitled:
- La face cachée du recours collectif (Hidden aspect of class action);
- HSBC : Les recours collectifs de portée nationale (HSBC : Class action on a national level)
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