Our municipal law practice encompasses all aspects of the legal framework governing cities, municipalities and municipal organizations in Quebec.
We represent several cities and municipalities as well as companies and individuals who maintain business relations with municipalities or who are involved in legal disputes with them.
The members of our municipal group posess excellent theoretical and practical knowledge of municipal law. They will assist you effectively and they recommendations will be atuned to your practical, everyday experience.
One does not become a municipal law expert overnight – only lawyers with many years of experience with cases involving municipalities will be able to provide legal advice of a quality level comparable to ours.
Our experience includes the following skills :
- Extensive knowledge of municipal laws and ethics rules
- Daily legal assistance by telephone to our municipalities
- Practical experience with regulatory and municipal procedures
- Legal assistance to the regional county municipalities of Quebec
- Management of tender calls and of their conformity
- Public-private partnership agreements
- Land use planning
- Intermunicipal agreements and legal assistance to the authorities
- Management of information access demands
- Management of zoning changes
- Municipal extracontractual liability
- Environment and management of sanitary landfills
- Expropriation and evaluation
- Construction and real estate law
- Zoning of agricultural land
- Preparation and presentation of bills to parliamentary commissions
- Strategic counselling to municipal management
