The lawyers and staff at McCuaig Desrochers LLP are taking a well-deserved break during the holidays. Our office will be closed as of 4:30 pm on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 and will reopen 8:30 am on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024.
The Partners of McCuaig Desrochers LLP are excited to welcome our newest associates, Megan Franklin and Paul Smith. Megan has joined our team of litigators and has a passion for family law. Paul has joined our team of solicitors and is ready to help you to continue building your business plans. The Partners are also pleased to welcome our latest articling students, Hadeel Othman and Klarissa Rivero, and look forward to helping them continue a long career within the legal
McCuaig Desrochers LLP would like to congratulate our long-time friend and colleague, Doug Lynass KC, on his well-deserved retirement. Doug has been an active and highly-regarded member of the Edmonton legal community since 1976. During his distinguished legal career, Doug worked most recognizably at Lynass, Ferguson & Schoctor / Alberta Business Lawyers. We are honoured that Doug has placed his trust in McCuaig Desrochers LLP to assume the representation of many of his longstanding clients. His trusted assistant, Colleen Nichol,
The Government of Canada announced the introduction of the Recognized Employer Pilot (REP) on August 8, 2023. It was the first major policy announcement made by Edmonton Centre MP, Randy Boissonnault, in his new role as Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages. The Recognized Employer Pilot is designed to reduce the red-tape and administrative burden associated with hiring temporary foreign workers and will apply to a subset of those employers who have demonstrated a good track-record of compliance
We are proud to announce that Breanna Case has been Admitted to the Bar and welcome her as an Associate with the firm. Please see Breanna’s full bio here.
Today, Canada’s immigration minister announced a significant expansion of the Francophone Mobility Program which will make it easier for more French-speaking individuals to come and obtain work permits to work in Canada. The Francophone Mobility Program was originally launched in 2016 to promote Francophone immigration to Francophone minority communities outside of Quebec, it exempts Canadian employers (outside of Quebec) from having to go through the Labour Market Impact Assessment system, making it much easier for them to hire French-speaking workers
Since 2020, foreign workers in the Agri-Food industry were able to apply for permanent residence under a (then) new pilot program which was set to end May 2023. Today, the Government of Canada has extended this pilot program to run until May 14, 2025. The Government of Canada has also indicated that they will revise the program to: The majority of the current eligibility criteria and industries and occupations are able to benefit from this program does not appear to
McCuaig Desrochers LLP is excited to announce that Nathan Po, one of our partners, has been recognized twice, in both the 2023 Lexpert Legal Directory as a leading practitioner in immigration law, and in the 2023 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada in the field of immigration law. Best Lawyers™ compiles its lists of outstanding lawyers by conducting thousands of peer reviewed surveys. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the one of the foremost
Congratulations to Justin Kingston for being appointed as new President of Fédération des associations de juristes d’expression française de common law (FAJEF). FAJEF is a national organization with the goal to defend and promote access to justice in French in provinces and territories with an English-speaking majority across Canada. See: https://fajef.ca/english-information/
Case Review: Abbas v Esurance Insurance Company of Canada, 2023 ABCA 36 An important Court of Appeal of Alberta insurance law decision came out on February 6, 2023: how do we know it is important? Because the first line of the reasons for judgment reserved says so: [1] This is an important insurance case. It declares that the common-law-fraudulent-claims rule – an insurer is relieved of the obligation to indemnify an insured for any loss arising from the same event and under
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