Mr. Alain P. Lecours, Lawyer in Montreal, Canada

Member of the Quebec Bar since 1991, Mr. Alain P. Lecours is a graduate of the Université de Sherbrooke's Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke, one of the most highly respected law schools in the province of Quebec and Canada.

Having established his own law firm in 1994, Mr. Alain P. Lecours has since been joined by numerous associates. Mr. Alain P. Lecours endeavours to provide a full range of legal services to his business clients, both at home and around the world. Through the years, Mr. Lecours has acquired a solid legal expertise in several fields of practice pertaining to the legal needs of small and medium businesses. He focuses on commercial, corporate, and trade-mark law. He has developed privileged, long-term relationships with his clients, which give him the opportunity to enlarge his interventions, beyond traditional practice, to every facet of business. Mr. Lecours envisions his role as that of as a business partner and counsel to his clients. He gives priority to establishing relations based on trust.

Mr. Lecours' first language is French, but he also fluently speaks English and Spanish. He is thus familiar with the cultural diversity of the three Americas.

Committed to providing the best service to his clientele, Mr. Lecours is well acquainted with the challenges inherent to globalization and to the new information technologies. In recent years, Mr. Alain P. Lecours has also developed his expertise in matters involving intellectual property and trade-marks; he is in fact a trademark agent.

Mr. Alain P. Lecours is accredited by the Province of Quebec Bar as a mediator, in matters both commercial and civil. He represents his clients in and pleads before civil and commercial tribunals.

Mr. Alain P. Lecours regularly writes The Legal Insider, a newsletter discussing various legal issues of interest to business people. The Legal Insider is freely distributed via email to the clients and partners of Lecours & Lessard.