Ogilvy Renault LLP was a Canadian
law firm with 450 members in offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto, Calgary and London, England. Ogilvy Renault offered services in the areas of business law, litigation and ADR, employment and labour law and intellectual property. Ogilvy Renault offered services in both English and French and in
civil
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*Civic virtue, or civility
*Civil action, or lawsuit
* Civil affairs
*Civil and political rights
*Civil disobedience
*Civil engineering
*Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism
*Civilian, someone not a membe ...
and
common law
In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions."The common law is not a brooding omnipres ...
.
History
The firm began in 1879 as Carter, Church & Chapleau in Quebec. In 2001, the firm merged with Meighen Demers LLP of
Toronto
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.
On November 15, 2010, Ogilvy Renault announced it was joining the British firm of
Norton Rose with the merger being completed on June 1, 2011, making it one of the 10 largest law firms in the world.
Alumni
* former Quebec Conservative premier
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (November 9, 1840 – June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898.
Life
As a lawyer, he defen ...
* former Quebec Conservative Party leader
Adrien D. Pouliot
* former prime minister
Brian Mulroney
* former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations
Yves Fortier
* former Conservative senator
Michael Meighen
* former Conservative senator and Minister of International Trade
Michael Fortier
* former Chief Justice of Quebec
Pierre Michaud
* former Ontario Attorney-General and Liberal MPP
Michael Bryant
* former President & CEO of OMERS Strategic Investments Jacques Demers
References
External links
Decker & Bose
Defunct law firms of Canada
Law firms established in 1879
Law firms disestablished in 2011
Canadian companies established in 1879
Canadian companies disestablished in 2011
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