Our Quest For Excellence
Since 1999, Bélanger Longtin Avocats has been dedicated to delivering exceptional legal services. Our team of experienced lawyers is committed to providing personalized and accessible legal solutions, ensuring that our clients achieve their goals with confidence and clarity.
Professional liability
Our practice was first developed under the larger umbrella of professional liability.
The initial mandates we received from our clients were first and foremost aimed at defending professionals of all disciplines: lawyers, doctors, accountants, agronomists, engineers and land surveyors.
During this initial period, we mastered the applicable principles of the time and, along the way, clarified their scope through various landmark decisions later upheld by both lower and higher courts.
Medical Liability and Health law
Over the years, thanks to the trust placed upon us by our clients and with the help of seasoned experts, we developed a thorough understanding and mastery of medical concepts applicable to the practice of various healthcare professionals.
Moreover, we have been able to apply and develop the general concepts of medical liability, shaping, developing and clarifying them through several landmark decisions.
This specific knowledge of the field also opened the door to disciplinary debates both within healthcare establishments and with the Professional Orders governing them.
Ultimately, we also had the opportunity to apply these principles in the context of Youth Protection and child services.
Construction law
As a result of the trust placed upon us by our most loyal and esteemed clients, we pushed ahead with our foray into the development of our expertise in the field of professional liability within the context of construction law.
Firstly, through the professional liability of engineers, who are subject to the same standards and general principles.
As in the medical field, we benefited greatly from the technical knowledge and experience of our seasoned experts, who have allowed us to develop this new expertise.
This practice has gradually been broadened and now encompasses the liability of contractors as well as the various trades and sub-trades intervening on a construction site.
Insurance law
Over the years, while building on our knowledge of the day-to-day lives of the professionals we are called upon to defend, our clients have sought our services to interpret the downstream application of the various coverages offered to their policyholders. This would include the duty to defend, coverage limits and exclusions as well as mandates to defend insurers directly sued by their policyholders or third parties.
This practice also encompasses subrogated actions by insurers against liable third parties, again within the application of the general principles of professional liability.
Employment law
In striving to serve our insurance clients offering coverage to directors and officers, we have developed an expertise in employment law.
More specifically, our team is called upon to represent and advise employers in matters of wrongful dismissal, psychological harassment, monetary claims and occupational health and safety. We were thus called to intervene in judicial proceedings under both provincial and federal legislation and jurisdiction.