Pragmatic action that
yields results

Our method of action is pragmatic and centres on obtaining results. Too often a judicial victory appears as less than the ideal outcome in terms of time and money invested. This is why our attorneys guide our clients toward different possible avenues, helping them to never lose sight of the true stakes.

You will find at Spiegel Sohmer litigants experienced in complex problems of different types, notably the following:

• commercial litigation (owners/ tenants, contracts, etc.) and pertinent extraordinary recourse (injunctions, evocations, etc.);
• litigation among shareholders (recourse to oppression, dissolutions, liquidations, etc.);
• insurance law (aviation, damages, ownership, insurance, and insurance surplus);
• civil responsibility (responsibility for defective and dangerous products, physical and psychological damages, physical damages, and economic losses);

• medical professional malpractice (professional responsibility of physicians, nurses, hospitals, etc.);
• litigation on intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc.);
• professional responsibility of lawyers, notaries, engineers, and accountants;
• class-action claims (responsibility for defective and dangerous products, information privacy, transferable securities, environmental damages, etc.);
• litigation related to succession and inheritors;
• relations between franchisors and franchisees;
• labour and employment law (unjustified dismissal, complaints of discrimination, sexual harrassment, breaching of fiduciary obligations, etc.);
• construction law, technical and contractual terms, and regulations;
• environmental law, site contamination and cleanup;
• aviation, responsibility in case of accident, Canadian and international regulation;
• family and marital law.