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Melissa Tehrani is an associate in Gowlings’ Montréal office, practising in the area of intellectual property with a focus on advertising, marketing and regulatory law. Melissa’s practice covers a range of business activities with particular emphasis on consumer protection and language legislation.

Melissa advises national and international corporations with respect to their legal advertising, marketing, consumer protection legislation and language legislation obligations in Québec. As such, Melissa’s main areas of practice include advertisement copy reviews and pre-approvals for print media, radio, television and the Internet; contest promotions; packaging and labeling; children’s advertising; ACTRA and UDA matters; French language requirements; and privacy law.

During law school, she attended the Université de Lumière – Lyon II in France and interned at Concordia University’s Legal Information Clinic.

Melissa joined the firm in 2009 as a law student and continued on as an articling student. She practises in English and French and is proficient in Italian.